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Help, I can't convince people who have more direct experience than me that they are wrong
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What do you mean leader?
Direct democracies don't have representatives
A direct democracy can certainly have an executive, they just don't have a legislature, because they are the legislature.
When you have to keep making up different situations than I described in order to discredit what I described it feels forced and petty.
The tyranny of the majority will always be objectively better for everyone than a tyrrany of the minority.
If you think people need to elect rulers that will eventually stab them in the back for personal gain that says something about you, not human society.
People will elect rulers, that's how people work. That you can't show a single example of a leaderless, stable country is really strong evidence of that. The closest was probably Athens, and they elected a strong leader.
Ok so you can't even fathom not having a master.
You don't care about reading what i type.
I'm disengaging now.
I certainly can, but I'm not talking about me, I'm talking about people generally, and I don't think the quiet majority can handle not having a master.