Well that's the thing, the "vote-splitting" theorists weren't completely right either The Bernie supporters who were sure Harris, Buttigieg, Booker, Yang, etc were all taking some percentage of votes from Bernie weren't wrong, because voters don't sort into neat boxeshttps://twitter.com/Amber_mom_/status/1235067995707363328 …
Well, I mean, we're closer to technocracy than democracy in many many ways A lot of people have produced the hot take that the state bureaucracy is the unelected "fifth branch of government", and the whole world of expert advisory councils the sixth
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Wait, which is the 4th?
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Elected officials don't directly do that much, their role in our government is to be a democratic oversight over a system that mostly hires based on meritocracy and mostly runs itself YMMV on whether this is a good thing, but "democracy = idiocracy" has mostly been false
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Well, under normal circumstances Maybe Trump is the sign of that whole system finally breaking down, I dunno
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