The f.Law of Democracy
Even though “the majority” is nothing but dividing a population into to two, and then taking one person from group A and putting them into group B, they rule.
When everybody is put together, they’re only as intellectual as the least intellectual members of society. Provided that everybody’s vote carries the same weight.
It seems fair, but isn’t an
average person average, intellectually?
Or else, that would mean that any random ten people, when put together, are intellectually superior to Albert Einstein. Which I doubt.
The majority of the people who make up the majority are intellectually average, thus, easier to be manipulated by second-rate politicians.
So a political party run by fools can use the people’s money (read: tax) to hire an intellect to help persuade “the majority” to put (or keep) the fools in power.
All that democracy does is give people the power to give their power away.
(In a country of three, the election by two insensible people is not necessarily the best selection for the poor remaining sensible person. Or, at times, all three.)
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— August 3, 2010.