<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>This is an insightful essay about the Swiss model of democracy:<br></div><div><a href="http://250bpm.com/blog:161/">http://250bpm.com/blog:161/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, Aug 7, 2020, at 10:43 AM, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CA+TuoW2WgRd5DkiWMP5cDmzQ90ocFTqoLdvYBQVjqJPeSYt7Qg@mail.gmail.com"><div dir="ltr"><div class="qt-gmail_quote"><blockquote class="qt-gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;">The actual method of
voting isn't the only aspect of Canadian democracy that can
be criticized or that could be improved. Just ask Fair Vote
Canada for their opinions about this. From my perspective,
the best democratic system I've seen is the Swiss model.<br></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><p>I wonder, if direct democracy, with more of internal sense of
influence on things around you inoculates against coercion, builds
up coercion resistance.<br></p><p>Also, the more important decisions in hands of people, the less
god-like chairs are in the government, the less desire to occur
said chairs.<br></p><p>On another hand, who needs to spend millions on bribing peasants,
when first-past-the-post and gerrymandering give the result. No
need for coercion.<br></p></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>