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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social |
Representative democracy should be tempered by participatory democracy. If we are going to have two chambers, one should be the House of Commons, the other should be the entire population of 67 million people.
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George Monbiot
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You may scoff, but a remarkable property of deliberative, participative democracy is that it works much better in practice than it does in theory. As we have seen in places such as Rojava and Porto Alegre, it transforms people into democratic citizens.
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