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scroblart | 11 months ago

yeah transparency is bad news, the real problem is voters demands for purity from their politicians

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eru|11 months ago

No transparency at all is also bad.

I'm afraid an ugly compromise of muddling through with some transparency is the best we can get in practice. At least if your democracy features voting, and especially first-past-the-post voting.

As one alternative, filling your parliament up via sortition might eliminate the downsides of transparency.