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[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

I like representative democracy in theory, our current implementation in the US‡ has a few major issues in that each representative doesn't represent the same amount of people. And we should have a lot more representatives for the people.

Not everyone can dedicate the necessary time to be fully engaged and informed about all the intricacies that come from running a government, so some form of representation is needed. But ~500 people representing around 300 million people is not nearly enough for the national stage IMO.

‡ I'm talking about the US here because that's where I live, but I'm sure other countries have similar issues though.