Tony Cartledge on Nostr: Deliberative assemblies bring out something remarkably like civic virtue; that ...
Deliberative assemblies bring out something remarkably like civic virtue; that politicians behave better, and the people are happier ... The more proportional, parliamentary, direct, deliberative and mutable a democracy is, the more its citizens self-educate, vote, follow rules and respect outcomes. The better the democratic tools, the less we sort into mindless tribes.
John MacGregor
The Mechanics of Changing the World:
#anarchism #democracy #democracyreform #auspol
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