1) Good, because parties representing classes is akin to tribal warfare.2) If you mean PR, it makes every government a coalition and everything becomes even more centrist. Everybody is essentially always in power, at least a bit. If you mean direct democracy, see (1). Which is not to say that indirect democracy makes any sense, but it's a system under which bastards get power and then you hurl abuse at them for decade or so and vote them out in favour of different bastards who appear nicer, and as such is better than a system (and I mean proportional representation as well as direct democracy) without anybody specific to complain at. At least under the current system somebody has to be a bit creative to get in power.
Ideally nobody (rather than everybody) would have the power.
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Ideally nobody (rather than everybody) would have the power.