Can we function with no polititcians?

[InsaneApache]

Try direct democracy.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Sort of.

But unless you want a really hardcore libertarian government, you would need to find other individuals or institutions to fill their role.

You could cut out parliament and the party system. But then you would just have to leave policy making to the civil service.

Of course if you didn't elect them they wouldn't be accountable to anyone. So then we would start electing these officials, and then they would start campaigning for our votes and divisions would form along partisan lines. And then you've just reinvented politicians all over again.

But you can have direct democracy functioning alongside politicians. For example like they do in Switzerland.

[HoreTore]

Try direct democracy.

Direct democracy is one of the forms of "government" of an anarchist utopia.

Anyway, direct democracy is among the lowest forms of democracy. It is tyranny of the majority on a case by case basis, which is utterly unworkable and undesirable. The glory of democracy is its ability to compromise, which a representative democracy does well.