@Alon @DiegoBeghin @MisuseCase @kentwillard that is painting with way too broad a brush. electoral reform is my core political aspiration at the moment, but imperfectly democratic municipalities really are imperfectly democratic, more legitimately and reliably than people who unilaterally declare the imperfections deficits and substitute their own views for what a “true” democracy would yield. 1/

@Alon @DiegoBeghin @MisuseCase @kentwillard (there’s no such thing as a true democracy. every means of aggregating of public preferences, values, interests shapes the outcome of that aggregation. there are some obvious kinds of defects i hope we all agree are illegitimate. but in general we have to defer to the procedures that are to get procedures we think are better, and it’s not legitimate to let opinion polls or such supervene.) /fin