you don't have to be educated to know what you personally want. A democracy is the collective agreement to go with the majority view.
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Replying to @Zacnaloen @crash_matrix
Which is why it can have good or bad results. If majority are, say, religious right - Christian or Muslim - I'd be less keen on democracy.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @crash_matrix
It's how you lose thats important as well as how u win. I've been unhappy with the results of democracy for many years now, but with Brexit
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Replying to @Zacnaloen @crash_matrix
There's a line. Can go with the majority only so far. If a majority voted to take my rights away & stick me in a Burka, I'd not be gracious.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @crash_matrix
Well that's an unhealthy society that's mismanaged itself if that happens. Altohugh tbf, ...
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It is the educated who are voting for a situation that is more likely to result in that situation than the working class are
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Replying to @Zacnaloen @crash_matrix
Ah, you mean educated in the formal sense rather than having informed themselves on the issues? Well, that would make no sense at all.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @crash_matrix
Yep, that was the argument though. Essentially for a technocracy. Would be awful for the West.
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It would, yes.
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