Thread: The Return of Ronald Reagan?

I know why there aren't more direct democracies. However, I fail to see how the bogeyman of "tyranny of the majority" is worse than the current reality of "tyranny of the minority with the money to buy the elected".

I grew up in a family containing several career politicians, I was very active in local politics as a teen and a young adult, I worked for 6 years inside a very large democratic institution. I have seen first hand what the political system does to new members. I've seen lobbyists from mega corporations latching on to people as they crossed the doors of the elected office, and those were the slow lobbyists. I don't expect any politician reaching the national stage to be anything other than a mouthpiece for the oligarchy, they'll be shaped or discarded before getting a shot at nomination.

For what it is worth, I don't think the framers of the modern democracies envisioned the robber barons, corporations large enough to buy elected representatives or banks "too big to fail".