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Originally Posted by Lune
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There are intelligent people who voted for Trump for one reason or another, to whom your point applies and I agree.
But those weren't the people who made the election go the way it did. It was populism at its worst, which I'm naive to even lament about. It's exactly what our system was designed to defend against. Here I am spending the last several years whining about money in politics, and what happens when someone finally wins an election without buying it? Donald Trump. No thanks, I get it now. I don't blame the elite, I blame the Americans who put them there. Totally unqualified to run a republic.
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i agree :c if not the first, a fundamental role of government ought be to guard men and their fellows against their own stupidity. i see two problems wth the American system:
1. adverse selection in the purchase of power by way of promises to the voter
2. the capacity of the government to deliver on those promises, validating them in the first place.
i see two possible solutions: a largely impotent government heavily restrained in its capacity, denying politicians their favored currency, or a much more authoritarian government with limited votership. i no longer believe education to be the indomitable bane i once considered it against this sort of thing. education teaches people things. it doesn't teach the to think.
democracy is rule by fools.