>>18815931>we have a countryYou don't have shit. Most ctizens of the vast majority of countries in the world have near 0 chance of ever becoming legislators, government bureaucrats, let alone high-ranking administrators.
It doesn't matter if you actually live in Guatemala or Belarus (we both know you don't actually live in Eastern Europe, but I'll temporarily entertain the notion that you do), you have NO fucking power over what your government dictates what you can do, what you can post online, what countries you can trade with, what kind of goods you can import or export (and I'm not talking about USSR-tier regulations, but rather about regular controls on the economy and citizens' private lives, just like the ones America and Russia have in place right now). You have no more of a chance of becoming your country's president than 99.999% of the country. What the hell do you actually have? Just periodic "elections" (not actually elections, since you can only choose 1 of the few candidates that appear on a ballot, and would get your vote annulled anyway if you were to write down an unlisted, non-registered candidate's name) and occasional referenda on shit that the government deems safe enough for people to decide for themselves.
It's the illusion of choice that makes people believe that they really have power, when the truth of the matter is that power is in the hands of a few people. It doesn't matter who those people are, since a few representatives who make decisions independently of the will of individual citizens is NEVER equivalent in any form to direct democracy.
America doesn't have it. Russia never had it. Germany never had it. India never had it. Switzerland kind of has it at municipal level, but that's it. The ancient city-state of Athens had it, but only for people who owned land, were not slaves or convicted criminals, and were over the age of 30.
And anybody who wants to look at Athenian democracy as a model can look at how it judged Socrates.
