• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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    9 months ago

    Okay internet faux intellectual fascist whose version of explaining The Republic’s political philosophy is “read Wikipedia” and "the problem with democracy is the people are morons, so we’ve gotta figure out how to protect the idiot plebs from themselves!"👍

    What’s your favorite IQ benchmark for forced sterilization btw?

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      9 months ago

      the problem with democracy is the people are morons, so we’ve gotta figure out how to protect the idiot plebs from themselves

      That is a problem. Representative democracy in our federal republic (the US) aims to mitigate the “tyranny of the dull mob”.

      What we need (in the US) is to tweak term limits, introduce ranked voting, and have more direct-vote referendums to help check the power imbalance of plutocrats.

      We don’t need to throw out the Socratic Method.