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It's representative democracy so we can choose which party who will misrepresent us. Then choose another one which will misrepresent us.

It's about time that idea was crushed and we moved to voting on policies rather than parties and personalities. There isn't a one size fits all party.

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But we know from comparative study of representative democracy that it does work, and it doesn't have to be "misrepresenting", and the reason certain representative democracies do a bad job of representation boils down to features o their electoral structures that produce results that are both poorly representative in the immediate term, and which also narrow the space of ideas and debate in the longer term.

> There isn't a one size fits all party.

Seems to be a non-sequitur, there isn't a one-size fits all policy, either.

It worked until the people who manipulated elections worked out how to manipulate elections and started forming parties. Breaking it down to policy level makes it far harder to manipulate an election.

A good example is the UK Labour party. People want the social side of their policies but not the surveillance. They could have voted for the social policies and against the surveillance. But no we have to eat the surveillance if we want the social policies.

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