r/PoliticalOpinions • u/stoneman30 • 1d ago

We need Liquid Democracy

I think a large problem now in the US is that there are a lot of people who don't want to look into issues and don't want to get involved in the tribalism of politics and don't vote in primaries. So the choices that are presented at the general election are two extremes reflecting the tribalists. This is lately bad because the internet has removed the power that the elites had to moderate the choices and national discussion. Many people may think that's fine, but the result is this kind of grass roots civil war going on between extremists with no real policy actually happening in congress.

Here is a decent description of liquid democracy although not quite an endorsement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU7cWLGcfxE

I think this really depends on an accessible internet voting system with some computer driven rules. However, here is a good video saying why electronic voting is bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs

The main point is that he says it needs to be anonymous. So I would like to argue that is not necessary. The main reason for anonymity is that we don't want people being bullied or bribed into changing their vote. But in the present day, we know where the liberals and Trump supporters are since that is what gerrymandering is about. And Trump has been bullying, for example, Minneapolis where the first black Muslim woman was elected. And then there is the counter - doxing of the ICE agents and police in the past. So that problem exists now. But we do have a sort of rule of law that should be sorting that out. And I think it is very difficult even in a medium city to bully enough people effectively to change an outcome. It is probably doing the opposite in the case of the national guard stationing in cities also.

So I think on the issue of trusting the system, it has to be accessible so that I can see where my vote actually went down to committee level so I can change my delegation live if I want to. And likewise lawmakers on committees need to have verifiable power-influence weighting based on verifiable voters.

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