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Just because it isn't totally new, doesn't make it a non-issue.

Blaming things on a stupid electorate just sounds like more justification of a totalitarian regime. Could it be possible that people need more information about what is going on in order to make better decisions? Let's err on the side of democracy please.



Half of Americans have an IQ under 100. Give them a sound bite about yellow cake uranium and they will line up to kill them some sandniggers. This is not an insult, just an experimental observation.

I would like to see government run something like grand juries. Randomly conscript a commission of intelligent, well-educated people to study some issue, and let them make policy. A non-democratic government need not be totalitarian.


Until those committees start selecting the committees.


Indeed. The committee selection lotteries should be very public and the guardians conscripted from the whole population.




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