Do you think we would like living in a true democracy?

i live in a country (switzerland) with this democracy. but voting every day for what goes on in the parliament means there are nomore working people. here we have the system with 2 representants from every state, thats the little chamber. then we have the big chamber with the representatives from every state, it depends how much population they have. these are all voted in representatives from the population of switzerland. and if we are not ok what they decide, we can protest and need a certain amount of votes, to get the issue solved with the votes from the whole population of switzerland. to explain you the whole system, it wold be a very long post lol, so i hope you understand what i mean here.

I believe people should vote their own representative in Parliament (=democracy system) but I don't think we should vote every day on issues that come up in Parliament. Otherwise, we won't be able to do things in our daily life.

I've always thought so but then again I wish we were still bartering and trading too... it would cut out the middle man and everyone would have what they needed either by trading services or goods.

I think that its a really nice idea in theory, but in practice it would never work. As well as the actual coordination of it the vast majority no absolutely nothing about the issues that we would need to be decided upon. Also many people do not vote, and are unlikely to under the kind of system you suggest, so it still wouldn't be representative anyway. Although there are admitted huge problems with the way that the country is run I really don't think that the public would do a better job of it.

what is a democracy? The government keeps the rich rich and the poor poor. What is there to like? its capitalistic government.

yes i think india is slowly coming on the right track

It would be better than the oligarchy we have today. I don't hink there can be true democracy with the gdp of most nations is being grossly mishandled and unfairly distributed. When they get the gap between the haves and the have nots lessened they they can all waffle on about democracy. Your idea is far more appealing than the crappy systems we have in place at the moment. I will second your motion lol.

I would very much like to live in a true democracy. I think it is possible to organize society like this, but it takes a lot of work. I also believe it would have to be a quite small community for it to work well. Today people to not even bother to vote once every two years. The reson most people give for not voting is that their vote does not really matter. I believe people would engage in important topics once they saw that they have real influence.

I have thought about this in the past.Yes, true democracy will involve greater participation from the citizens and lesser from the representatives ,,which should be a good thing,but we would still need them.If this voting could be electronic and done on a weekly basis,then I don't think too many people would mind it if they are provided computers by the government.I would love to be able to have a say in my and my nation's present and future.Of course everything can't be revealed to public,like intelligence inputs and issues concerning national security.So, we would still need the elites to act on those.It might not be a total democracy per se ,but it could be very close to being a true democracy.