John Lennaine makes an argument down thread that effectively states that democracy is not scalable. WHile a large-scale democracy obviously has serious issues that have to be designed around, it is, IMHO, absolutely not the case that democracy itself is not scalable. The most obvious scaling solution is an architecture in which hierarchical units aggregate their votes seamlessly, which also provides near real-time dissemination of information throughout the voting pool and provides the lowest hierarchy with some channel for redress and petition.

But these are details, really; the fundamental argument that modern nations are too populous for democracy to work is in my opinion indefensible.

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