Or I guess a better way to phrase it is, why are politics, the biggest factor in societal wellbeing, influenced by the masses who have no obligation to be educated in the subject.Like let's say I got diabetes, I go to the doctor and the doctor wants to give me insulin, but the people in the waiting room voted for me to have a kidney transplant, so I guess we gotta go for a kidney transplant. That's pretty retarded, right? People who aren't educated in a subject don't carry any power within that field typically, and that's not discrimination it's just common sense. So why should politics be any different, why are we dictating the economy, society, laws etc. by whatever the majority of retards want?
I don't trust politicians to even know what's best for me, and even if they did I expect they'd probably desire and work toward the opposite.To say otherwise betrays a bootlicking attitude.
>>539806515But politicians aren't educated either, there's no requirement or exam or whatever, you just gotta find your party and get your campaign funded. So you some fagboy that doesn't know lick and you promise everyone free money, they vote you in, boom you got political power
>>539806571Exactly. That's why to say that they should be unelected (unaccountable) or be given the power to decide who can vote (do you think they'll favor people who will likely vote for them?) is very stupid.
If power is concentrated, it is guaranteed to be concentrated within evil people. The point of democracy is to decentralize power, so that evil people will be drowned out by ordinary people. This is implemented very poorly, because what we have is a Republic, rather than a democracy. So no one is making any decisions other than which person to centralize power behind. And it so happens that in every election, every candidate is evil.This is why I advocate for anarchism. No one can be trusted with power, therefore no one should have any.
>>539806432The patient wants to go to the doctor, but who is the doctor, and who is there to decide? The question becomes deeper when you realize who the patient is. The patient is the population of a nation,they decide who the doctor will be, and they change the doctor when he cannot do his job properly. The doctor is the politician.
Because democracy is not so much about the population picking the best option there is, but rather about obtaining legitimacy for the current leadership. Of course, the crowd will likely never have an educated opinion on any given matter, it consists of common people after all. There is a reason why elected officials are never legally bound by their electoral campaign promises - they say all that nice stuff simply to get the vote and become legitimized, not to actually do any of those things, because the population has no idea what it wants or what it needs, so following their demands will just doom the nation. But the collective agreement of these people can legitimize the authority of an elected leader - the idea that they were selected by a (mostly) fair election where every person can cast their vote, makes it easier for people to come to terms with the current government. They all voted and it is sort of their collective will, so it is all good, even if the leader is not perfect. A leadership always had to obtain legitimacy through some kind of justification – for the Medieval Europe monarchies it was through bloodlines. In theocracies it was done through proving piety. In other cultures, it was done by showing you were just the toughest warlord around. In most modern countries those are elections. Even places like DPRK still have those for this exact purpose, - they need to somehow prove o their people they have a justification for being in charge, even if everybody knows the voting process is imperfect to say the least.
>>539806793Listen kid, that's not the point.The point is that plebs don't hold any power in the medical field.We don't vote in people to become doctors or give them power in the medical field, they get that by proving their competency through school n sheit. Both politicians and voters have 0 requirements for anything yet they decide the future. We should at least have a competency test for voters, like some of the most basic historical facts, asked completely neutrally, and some simple maths n shit to solve.
>>539806881You don't get to vote who gets to have a medical license but you do get to vote who among those with medical licenses gets to be the one to treat you.
>>539806432because eithera) they control opinions through the media, school etcorb) votes don't actually matter
>>539806763Feudalism was more decentralized than any modern system.
>>539806515And the irony is you were probably conditioned to have this opinion by those in power. One indication of that is that almost all Americans have this opinion, and in other countries the people have other mass opinions in just the same way. That doesn't just happen for no reason.>Islam is the right religion!t. person who grew up in Muslim country>Christianity is the right religion!t. person who grew up in Christian country>no religion is right!t. person who grew up in secular countrytiresome>>>/wsg/6188931The only way out of this black hole, by the way, is to study the Trivium.https://sacred-texts.com/mas/sof/sof28.htmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvYaOtciyfk&t=18430
