The good about democracy is that everyone can vote, and the bad about democracy is that everyone can vote.
Hence the need of proper education and unfiltered information, the first helping to digest and understand the second in order to know who you vote and why; if you tamper with those, you can have people vote for anyone, including a dictator.
Voting is a right, doing it knowledgeably is a duty, and so many people forget about the 2nd.
> the bad about democracy is that everyone can vote.
This is what needs to change. Recently there was a story that Reese Witherspoon was in a jury, and the other jury members thought she was a real lawyer because of Legally Blonde. These people are not qualified to serve on a jury let alone vote.
Why are we getting input from people that couldn't run a small low traffic corner store on how to run a country? It's ridiculous, and it's the reason the US is in the mess it is now.
Yes, and that's why democracy is honestly pretty terrible, despite all the championing it gets its still a tyranny of the majority. It can only really function with a well intentioned and educated population, and half or more of the US population is anything but.
Do you think that not considering Russia a main cyber threat is a wrong decision? Why?
Article gives no clear answer to why would it will make everything worse.
It does, however, speculate on how it may be a bad decision, but no one knows for sure.
Democracy works proportionally to the good implementation of sub-systems that maximize the quality of decisions (e.g. checks and balances, election of the electors, education etc.).
Otherwise, it is not a value per se: that would be a "tyranny of the majority".
It's always a tyranny of the majority, just hopefully with enough checks and restrictions in place to stop the worst crowd/mob impulses from having an effect.
squarefoot|1 year ago
nonrandomstring|1 year ago
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Mann
kennysoona|1 year ago
This is what needs to change. Recently there was a story that Reese Witherspoon was in a jury, and the other jury members thought she was a real lawyer because of Legally Blonde. These people are not qualified to serve on a jury let alone vote.
Why are we getting input from people that couldn't run a small low traffic corner store on how to run a country? It's ridiculous, and it's the reason the US is in the mess it is now.
GJim|1 year ago
It just means the people can (eventually) get rid of a bad one.
kennysoona|1 year ago
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polydevil|1 year ago
Article gives no clear answer to why would it will make everything worse. It does, however, speculate on how it may be a bad decision, but no one knows for sure.
mdp2021|1 year ago
Otherwise, it is not a value per se: that would be a "tyranny of the majority".
kennysoona|1 year ago
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dworkr|1 year ago
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