Re: "Politicians Think You're Dumb" Re: The BBB model of Western democracy

How to improve democracy?
A guide:
1.0 Democracy is about rule by the people.
2.0 Representative Democracy is a better version than Plato's version of
democracy
2.1.0 Representative Democracy is operated on a BBB model.
2.1.1 In Western Democracies, Ritualistic voting and democracy are often
seen as one and the same thing.
2.1.2 In reality, Ritualistic elections block democracy from evolving.
Voting is blocking democracy from evolving. The following from
""Democracy is like the >appendix" by Dylan Evans in "What Should We be
Worried" edited by John
Brockman 2014:

"Democracy is like the appendix. The very thing that makes majority
dissatisfaction inevitable in a democracy—the voting mechanism—also
makes it hard for a better political system to develop. The reforms that
would be necessary to pave the way for alternative systems of governance
lie well outside the safe middle ground of the median voter. Politicians
advocating such reforms are unlikely, therefore, to be voted into
office."

2.1.2.1 Ritualistic elections over-demand the people.
2.1.2.1.1 Why many people don't vote?
2.1.2.2 Ritualistic elections under-demand the people.
2.1.2.2.1 Why Election with low approval rating were elected term after
term.