I don't believe in democracy. I think a majority of the citizenry of this or any other nation is too damn stupid to govern themselves.
The reason why our democracy has worked marginally well for us thus far is because it's not direct. We have a Republic. Much like you hold out before your 3-year-old two appropriate outfits for school and give them the choice (lest they choose to wear a pair of shorts and a tank top in the dead of winter) the primary system of whittling down candidates to a select few typically nets 2 appropriate choices. Two people, most often with years of executive experience running states and passing laws- with good faith disagreements on how to address social issues and their own proposals for change they think beneficial. As a statistician, I also notice a regression to the mean, that while each candidate is decidely left or right, neither is radically left nor right, so whomever ends up elected is not so out of the mainstream that people fear for their lives and livelihoods. So, we have whittled down the pool of hopefuls to two, and these two are then placed before the electorate and a preference is expressed. The most favored is then elected.
Then came the election of 2008 which defied all logic and history. A charismatic celebrity, a man with no experience and little more than a catch phrase was thrust into the nomination despite the fact that he is clearly incapable of running a country. He's never run anything more than a campaign, never governed a municipality, never introduced a bill, never enacted any kind of change nor could boast any type of civil service accomplishment. What he proposes in order to buy voters is not economically feasible. And like a class presidency in junior high school, this popularity contest snagged him the nomination for leader of the free world.
We've established that I think a majority of people are idiots. If Obama elected, this is undeniable proof thereof, and the downright failure of democracy.
The reason why our democracy has worked marginally well for us thus far is because it's not direct. We have a Republic. Much like you hold out before your 3-year-old two appropriate outfits for school and give them the choice (lest they choose to wear a pair of shorts and a tank top in the dead of winter) the primary system of whittling down candidates to a select few typically nets 2 appropriate choices. Two people, most often with years of executive experience running states and passing laws- with good faith disagreements on how to address social issues and their own proposals for change they think beneficial. As a statistician, I also notice a regression to the mean, that while each candidate is decidely left or right, neither is radically left nor right, so whomever ends up elected is not so out of the mainstream that people fear for their lives and livelihoods. So, we have whittled down the pool of hopefuls to two, and these two are then placed before the electorate and a preference is expressed. The most favored is then elected.
Then came the election of 2008 which defied all logic and history. A charismatic celebrity, a man with no experience and little more than a catch phrase was thrust into the nomination despite the fact that he is clearly incapable of running a country. He's never run anything more than a campaign, never governed a municipality, never introduced a bill, never enacted any kind of change nor could boast any type of civil service accomplishment. What he proposes in order to buy voters is not economically feasible. And like a class presidency in junior high school, this popularity contest snagged him the nomination for leader of the free world.
We've established that I think a majority of people are idiots. If Obama elected, this is undeniable proof thereof, and the downright failure of democracy.
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I think the failure of democracy was already proven when the idiots in this country elected George W. Bush.
I'm quite sure that Obama won't do any worse than the fool who is already in office.
Vargas,
George W. Bush didn't vote 4 times in favor of leaving preemies to die in soiled utility closets.
George W. Bush didn't defend birthing babies up to the neck and stabbing scissors in their little necks and sucking out their brains.
Between a Nazi that murders innocent babies and ANYONE ELSE, I'll go with ANYONE ELSE.
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