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I think the biggest problem with Democracy can be seen in California, whose experiments in direct democracy have caused a huge budget shortfall.

Problem 1: Everyone will vote against taxes. Who wants to pay more? Propositions and bills and candidates that lower taxes are popular and easy to pass.

Problem 2: Everyone will vote for perks... Why not get stuff for free? Free education, free healthcare... as long as the government pays for it... it's good for me. Propositions and bills and candidates that claim to offer benefits will be popular.

Problem 3: Salesmanship. Since few in a democracy are experts on all issues, the majority voting on things are swayed not by the facts, but on the salesmanship of the presenter.

I don't see a way around this that's so easy, but I have a *feeling* that a high-tech governance system can be built where experts in various domains are accorded responsibility for decisions related to proven success in that domain. Some distributed trust system that operates cross between Slashdot, Facebook, a Wiki and a Futures Market.

24.80.1.178 (talk) 14:32, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unnecessary

This page is unnecessary. This page is just another page for e-Government and has much less information. This will be replaced with a redirect to e-Government on Saturday, 6 March 2010 if nobody contests. C4757p (talk) 19:33, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]