Talk:Direct democracy

Boy, is this poorly written.
Poorly written. 84.229.133.113 (talk) 12:07, 13 April 2016 (UTC)


 * You are welcome to seriously improve it! -- ZH8000 (talk) 15:55, 13 April 2016 (UTC)


 * It is poorly written. For instance, the author waves general nouns such as, say, Anarchists, as if everyone knows what they mean exactly, and even more malicious, as if all anarchists believe one and the same thing uniformly, as if they were all robots. To make things even worse,the author then lists several of those general nouns, all of them extremely left oriented, or even with terrorist tendencies, that support direct democracy. As if only radicals support direct democracy. It's pure propaganda, the author of those passages does not bother to explain anything in any detail, nor to provide a counterexample: they just keep pushing in their own malicious direction. Also, the use of general nouns is hurtful, since it's political new-talk and does not provide any information at all, because general nouns do not refer to anything specific and real. That's why they're general. Such as, again, say, anarchists. If the author mentions anarchism as a philosophical concept with very well known literary representatives, why don't they say so then? Even then putting everything into a subject of few select anarchist books is extremely malicious. Improve it? Yes, delete those general propaganda, there's no other way to improve it. -- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.136.196.250 (talk) 11:00, 31 August 2020 (UTC)


 * That's the least of the problem. It is a lie too, but if we change it the anarchists will just change it back and Wiki likes tha. 2600:4040:7EDC:6400:1593:A59A:2D24:14DF (talk) 18:10, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

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Civic Education
Definition of direct democracy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 105.112.164.81 (talk) 21:12, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Rojava
Hello. I find it difficult to understand the presence of the "Rojava" section in this article, because I do not see the link with the general theme of direct democracy. Kimdome (talk) 11:39, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Sortition?
"'Fishkin instead argues that random sampling should be used to select a small, but still representative, number of people from the general public.[9][37]'"

Is the above referring to [sortition] or something similar? Should a link or discussion of sortition be added here? Phytographer (talk) 16:47, 9 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Yes, a link to sortition should be added. HudecEmil (talk) 20:11, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Yeah yeah 171.76.87.217 (talk) 14:13, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Sussy Bakka 171.76.87.217 (talk) 14:13, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Essence of direct democracy
The essence of this topic is as follows

To let the people determine their laws. 196.188.35.22 (talk) 17:06, 2 January 2024 (UTC)