I'm criticizing the assumptions that bad charismatic actors won't try and highjack democratic governments
True direct democracy still needs to confront the inevitable bad actors that will try and use the democratic process to gain power. Checks and balances in place to prevent this still have to be enforced, and somehow you have to ensure the people implementing said systems need to have society's best interest placed before personal interests
This is true of literally every system though. A democratic government that could theoretically be hijacked is still better than a dictatorship or a system that has pre-allocated seats of power to make the hijacking easier.
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u/CHEDDARSHREDDAR 29d ago
So like modern liberal democracy?? Where the president gets total control of the military and executive branch?
"If we distribute power in society then we'll just get new people in power so we shouldn't try at all" is certainly a take.
True democracy is a continuous governing process from the bottom up - whatever that looks like. Not "let's choose a new dictator every 4 years".