{"id":33083,"date":"2017-07-04T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33083"},"modified":"2017-06-24T09:10:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T13:10:03","slug":"qotd-direct-democracy-and-representative-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/07\/04\/qotd-direct-democracy-and-representative-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Direct democracy and representative democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Progressives generally are sentimentally supportive of direct local politics \u2014 they especially favor the ideals of the New England town meeting, where everyone who showed up had a say. The reason why this form of local government was generally abandoned is that it is simply too time-consuming for larger communities, and allows the motivated minority to capture control. Election of representatives was an advance which allowed voters to go about their own lives most of the time while exerting control through their representative, who had time to understand the issues thoroughly and vote in council in the best interests of the voters. Being in the 1% of local voters who cares deeply enough about an item to show up at a public meeting about it does not mean your feelings about it are more important than the views of those who didn\u2019t show up; the once-every-few-years election is more likely to reflect what most voters want.<\/p>\n<p>Jeb Kinnison, <a href=\"http:\/\/accordingtohoyt.com\/2015\/09\/25\/real-life-hunger-games-jeb-kinnison\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Real-life &#8216;Hunger Games'&#8221;, <em>According to Hoyt<\/em><\/a>, 2015-09-25.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressives generally are sentimentally supportive of direct local politics \u2014 they especially favor the ideals of the New England town meeting, where everyone who showed up had a say. The reason why this form of local government was generally abandoned is that it is simply too time-consuming for larger communities, and allows the motivated minority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,53,41,13],"tags":[766,1020],"class_list":["post-33083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-democracy","tag-progressives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8BB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33084,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33083\/revisions\/33084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}