People are voted here for the person there are or for their idea’s on certain subject or whatever somebody chooses to make their vote. Everybody can enlist themselves to be voted on different levels on the politic spectrum. Heck, it is even is a spectrum instead of a 2 or 3 party system.
A lot of what is done in the government is transparent and open for the public to read/see, a lot of our justice system is publicly available as well (except certain cases regarding children).
Most companies have to be transparent at least on a financial level and most of the bigger once also on other levels.
Our politic system is far from ideal though: democratiemonitor.nl/…/Democratie-Monitor-2025.pd…
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Representative democracy is a type of democracy. You’re not doing anyone any favors by conflating “direct democracy” and “democracy”.
Though somehow, I feel like you know exactly what you’re doing…
sadTruth@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 day ago
For me democracy means rule of the people.
Of course you can define words as you want, and say that only direct democracy is rule of the people, while representative democracy can be oligarchy dressed as democracy, but for me using such a definition makes the word democracy meaningless and undesirable.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Yeah, this is me defining words, and not established definitions that have literally been in use for hundreds of years 🙄
sadTruth@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 day ago
So yeah, you are right. A representative “democracy” is not a democracy. It’s a monarchy with more than one ruler.
A gummy bear is as much a bear as representative democracy is a democracy.
I didn’t know that, because i was taught in school that a representative “democracy” is a form of democracy. And the name makes it sound like one. But it isn’t. It’s not even supposed to be in theory. I am sure 99% of people living in a representative “democracy” don’t know this.
I hereby encourage everyone to abandon the word representative “democracy” in favor of polyarchy or maybe oligarchy. This makes it much clearer what we are talking about.
Also i doubt the authors of this article know this, because they imply that representative “democracy” is desirable, but it is obviously undesirable.