The Swiss have held a referendum on vaccine passports, and the results came in with 62% in favor. However, the vote didn't come out equal across all age groups. The young were against it by more than 50%.
This illustrates that direct democracy is no guarantee against tyranny, and only marginally better than representative democracy. Direct democracy makes it impossible to capture representatives through corruption. But the power of propaganda remains strong.
Politics cannot be fixed with direct democracy. The only way out of our current mess is to construct something completely new. The Bible talks of the kingdom of God for a reason. Even back then, people knew that democracy ends in tyranny, and that the way out of this mess is to create a system based on the golden rule. But that is only possible among people of high moral standing, and the Swiss failed in this respect.
A morally upright society will never sacrifice its young for the benefit of its old. However, the Swiss did just that. The old were eager to sacrifice the health and lives of the young in the hope of gaining a few more days of life for themselves.
Once again, we see that we must act on our own if we are to be free. We must build communities based on the golden rule.
This requires no central planning. It requires no violent revolt, and no great risk taking. All it takes is determination to do the right thing for ourselves and our loved ones, and the recipe for this can be found in the Bible as well as anarchist philosophy and manuals.
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