Who would you trust to perform a heart bypass on your ailing grandmother? A licensed surgeon, or an amateur?The same is true of voting. A democracy is a mob of amateurs making decisions for a country. What you actually want is a professional who can do the job properly.
>>546203154What is the equivalent political license, what institution is issuing such licenses, and why should I trust them?
>>546203294A law degree is theoretically, although not effectively, equivalent.Populism may therefore be the very worst thing for democracy. Demagoguery times ignorance = power.
>>546203154You see, throughout my life I've drank small amounts of poison everyday, that gave me an incredible resistance to doses that are lethal for a common man. Now what I do when I capture an idiot is offering him a chance to escape by playing a game, on the table are two cups, one has poison and the other don't. I let him pick one and I pick one, I always win you know why? Both are poisoned but I am immune to it.
>>546203294Owning land, thus having vested interest in the well-being of your specific polity. Nothing can serve as a qualifier for understanding something greater than your city or your state. Voting for the representatives was supposed to be a workaround for this. Just like a man is a representative of his household.
>>546203900So giving more power to the retarded yokels who already live in the middle of nowhere and vote predominatly red? Because that worked out great in 2024, didn't it?
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>>546203714So colleges should decide who gets to vote? Why? And why should I necessarily trust someone who has a law degree?
>>546203154You're assuming that the interest of the leader and the country are aligned, but that's simply not the case in a dictatorship. Even if you luck out and get a benevolent king, his son will be an idiot. And at that point as a citizen you're fucked with no recourse. This is why in whatever political system you have the leader needs to have a mandate from the people and there need to be mechanisms to remove them from office without bloodshed and to affect a peaceful transfer of power. Democracy of course can be terrible, as it's essentially a system of two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner, but you can manage democratic excesses with strong constitutionally-protected negative rights that aren't negotiable no matter how many people support doing so. Democracy for all its ills is the only existing system that actually works long-term for the governed.
>>546203931Less voices in the room makes every single one of them count more. If the opinions weren't so diluted, maybe there would have been an option to not pick between the two largest parties.
>>546203154That's why you should become a (((political advisor and a diplomat))) for more than just 1 puppet in position. Like Henry Kissinger>National Security Advisor (1969–1975) and Secretary of State (1973–1977)Yet he never once appeared on a ballot to vote for
>>546203975You don't understand American Politics. Our people are lazy retards who WANT a two party system, because it's less to think about. Dumb rednecks already have a disproportionate amount of power due to the electoral college, we aren't about to give them more just because their great grandfather bought land at 50 cents an acre and passed it down.
