@light Power of the logarithm. Let party hierarchies be three levels deep, less that a thousand in each local chapter, at a middle level, and at a leadership level. That's enough to accommodate the full population of the US. 1/

@light Alternatively you can go for quasi-online-direct democracy *among elected professionals*, but not the general public (whose members are rationally too busy doing other things to become specialists in deliberation and governance). That's the essence of this proposal: https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/9069.html /fin