They did a really good job on ads. Don’t look up how much they spent just on fooling the population.
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You seem to be under the misconception that the purpose of democracy is to select the objectively best governmental policy, as if such a thing could ever exist. That is not the purpose of democracy. If you want that kind of system, you want technocracy, not democracy.
The purpose of democracy is to keep us from killing each other. THAT is the purpose of democracy. It's too give enough people enough of a voice in government that very few people think starting a civil war is a necessary and proper course of action. It has nothing to do with selecting the "best" governmental policy, as that's entirely subjective.
The reason you don't want filter voters based on intelligence is that stupid people can use firearms just fine.
"stupid people can use firearms just fine." that's why you don't want them aligned with power (see ICE). If they are not aligned with power, they are just domestic terrorists. And they are not that numerous. J6 showed how many of them is actually willing to show up for a fight. Not an unmanageable number. Definitely not enough to start a civil war back then. Now, with government backing, yes.
You say this as if people wanting to kill each other is normal, and not mostly a result of class dynamics stemming from modes of production.
Shit, I must have missed the memo about world peace happening.
We have archaeological evidence of mass violence and war back when human beings were all living as classless egalitarian hunter gatherers. We've found mass graves that old.
Marxists lose the plot when they insist on analyzing everything through the lens of class struggle.
| stupid people can use firearms just fine
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