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A petition or a Tweet poll is very far from direct democracy. I have spoken to a person in Switzerland, where direct democracy exists, and she told me that people vote stupid things, but then as they feel the consequences, they start to vote more responsibly. Of course you don't start it by something as serious as what is happening now.

(Swiss speaking) What is important is that the vote/referendum process must be slow. Very slow.

We often see a trendy referendum being launched because of an event. Years later when we finally have to vote about it, we realize that it was only an historical parenthesis.

On the contrary. If you cannot trust the people being informed properly in an efficient political system, it means that you have an issue somewhere.

Not trusting the people because we think that most are too dumb means that we praise a census suffrage or indirect form of it.

I am Swiss. I am often disappointed by vote results. The system is not perfect. But at least we decided.

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