MDR Falcon wrote:
jpez... Yes, "better information has (theoretically) allowed voters to become more informed than ever before," but the keyword there is "theoretically." Access to accurate information may improve, but it is up to the citizen-- the voter-- to use it in a meaningful way. The point of the entire essay was that voters are, in general, stupid. These people should not be making decisions for the rest of society. Or even choosing people to make the decisions for the rest of society.
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Then who should be making the decisions? I assume you mean that the intelligent should be making all the decisions, but that doesn't entirely work out either, because intelligent people are not necessarily more socially responsible than any other people. "If you give a man power without responsibility, you have created a monster, if you hold a man responsible for what he cannot control, you are condemning him." Anybody ever read the book Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein? You know what I'm talking about then.
MDR Falcon wrote:
b-flat, we can be classified as a democracy, even if it is a representative democracy. People vote and have the right to express their political views, therefore the power of government in our country lies with the people, agreed? Therefore we can be classified as a democracy.
The type of rulership in America, according to Wikipedia, is a federal constitutional republic. And since Wikipedia is always right... case closed.
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