by paulpauper on 6/16/25, 6:41 PM with 7 comments
by A_D_E_P_T on 6/16/25, 7:27 PM
But what does "democracy" even mean? And how does ranked-choice voting prevent a polity from being a "democracy"?
Does the author realize that the Athenians also voted against people? Every so often, obnoxious politicians were ostracized. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism
Ranked-choice voting can be, along similar lines, a way of voting against somebody.
For whatever it's worth, the Athenians would be absolutely aghast at "representative democracy" -- feeling, as they did, that every male citizen was inherently a representative of Athens. (Hence Athenian travelers, little more than peddlers, felt capable of speaking on behalf of Athens when they once found themselves in Sparta.) The modern wage-earner, and not only in New York, is already more a Helot than an Athenian.
by kgwxd on 6/16/25, 7:07 PM