Low-Tech Democracy.

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by combatmedic

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No fancy theory is needed. The tribesmen get together and vote on stuff. Fairly common practice in some societies.

Voting on stuff is pretty common, yes. Even voting on who should get to sit in a council that then wields power, or voting on who should be come king and wield power alone.

The radical stuff is when it's no longer just normal people who get to vote, but also slaves, chicks, disabled people, poor people, children, atheists, foreigners, those who are cursed, elves, gnomes, orcs, dragons, AIs, uplifted dogs, and other strange kinds of people.

Everybody getting to vote. That's the bit that's hard to swallow. Not the voting thing itself.