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Sixteen-year-olds can learn to drive, get a job, pay taxes and be on the Organ Donor Register, but they are considered too young to vote. Should they also have a stake in deciding their future?
I mean it’s possible to have more representative representatives. It’s not an inherent thing in representative democracy that the representatives are wealthier.
Representative democracy is a form of democracy. Direct democracy is another form. There’s no “true” form.
In theory yes, in practice no. There is clearly a class difference between politicians and those whom they “represent”.
I mean it’s possible to have more representative representatives. It’s not an inherent thing in representative democracy that the representatives are wealthier.