Democracy should not be a U.S.-made Coca-Cola that tastes the same everywhere in the world, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Friday, stressing that there is not a fixed model for democracy.
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Liberal democracy is oligarchic period. Liberal legal frameworks exist to allow the rich to control the playing field.
If you look back at the first comment I made on this thread, you'll see that this is exactly what I said. Liberal democracy has a historic tendency to turn into oligarchy.
You said "in any big country."
Direct democracy works fabulously in small communes.
That is true, but you might notice that there is some space between these two categories. Germany is a pretty small country, and it's also an oligarchy.
Small comunities is probably limited to pashtun villages with a few dozen freeholders. Anything at the size or larger than the free population of classical athens seems too big.
Direct democracy and liberal democracy are extremely different things