More to the point, representationalism is not democracy, which is "government of the people, by the people and for the people", more specifically, government in which policy is formulated by optional minimal/optimal individual responses to local, regional, and national referenda (ie citizen-initiated referenda (CIR).
More to the point, representationalism is not democracy, which is "government of the people, by the people and for the people", more specifically, government in which policy is formulated by optional minimal/optimal individual responses to local, regional, and national referenda (ie citizen-initiated referenda (CIR).
a lot of what you say here is also suggested in Rory Stewart's book, Politics On the Edge. So disheartening and disturbing.