Author: Long Jiao

The practices of Democracy are not the same because they may be on different levels. We define the level of Democracy as the sum of two scores: In Cupertino, people control some concrete issues in the form of Measures (local level) and Propositions (state level), but nothing for Federal level. In every two years, there…

Don’t make me wrong. I like the idea of Democracy. But I don’t like our current practices of Democracy. Our current practice is the Trustee Model of Representation. Voters vote for a candidate based on the belief that the candidate will represent them properly. Once elected, the representative works on their own for two, four…