What kind of antidemocratic horseshit is this?
It states that in a perfect democracy, the masses would elect morons because they themselves are morons.
If only us North American scum could perceive this idea of proportional representation.
Well, us Kiwis are following not that far behind and catching up quickly.
What a dumb thing to say. Australia has the same things said about it, yet we aspire to be closer to the NZ system. Neither of us is anywhere close to the disaster of US politics. It would take fundamental changes to our voting laws to “catch up” to them.
The US is not a perfect democracy lol. I’d hardly even call it an imperfect one, atleast for the working class.
Did I misunderstand it? He is claiming that in a perfect democracy the leader would eventually be an idiot because the people are idiots no?
I’m claiming that thats a stupid fucking way to view society and that it isn’t even close to being reflective of our reality.
holy crap and that was before nixon.
Hnngh hnngh yes yes quite the unwashed masses need to be kept far from power hmm yes Tallyho good man hmm hmm.
