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It is what it is (Tim Kreider)
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Where? Closest thing I see is a "Rule of representatives elected by representatives elected by less than half the citizens over the age of majority" thing.
I believe that's the point being made. "Representative Democracy", or at least the pretense of which some live under at this time, is the best we ("we" referring to a particular group of people, not humanity as a sum) have found so far.
I get the point. My point is that we're still far from trying an actual "Representative Democracy" for any largish group of people, and that the Democracy of ancient Greece, with all its glaring flaws, was more Democratic than anything we have right now.
I don't think everyone being forced to elect would yield better results.
As opposed to FPTP, gerrymandering, multi-layer representative cutoffs, regional vote weight balancing, or the D'Hondt method?
What's your basis to think that?
I'm not american and know about half of those words.
I'm not USA-n either, so only half of those apply to my applicable flavor of "democracy". It's still a good exercise to know about the options.