Good thing the US isn't a democracy. (It's a federal republic.)
A functional technocracy or meritocracy wouldn't rely on such a flawed system of voting where you have to hope the smart people run for the positions they're qualified for, and hope the population is smart enough (by test or whatever measure) to realize how qualified they are.
Human progress isn't measured by industry. It's measured by the value you place on a life.
Just, be kind.
Our version of "democracy" has little to do with actual democracy as it was envisioned by the ancient greeks.
The ostracizing system they had would have prevented people like Trump/Wilders/Le Pen to win elections, and they had systems in place to discourage large multinationals (yes, even back then) - you can't call our political system a democracy when we only copied a few parts of it and ignored the rest.
So yes, call it what you want, but no country in the world today has a democracy as envisioned by those that created the concept.
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Indeed OP. We should implement benevolent dictators everywhere, immediately! It's for the good of the people.
Honestly, this kind of thinking is the real cancer. The thing is, people think differently than you and that does not imply ignorance. I also like how you think that you and people like you are immune to manipulation and lies.
ANTIFA is made almost exclusively of secular, younger progressives, that doesn't make them right. In case of Brexit, those old, religious conservatives have been or directly payed the price of a war that was fought to keep their sovereignty, for them giving it up is the most stupid idea ever, and they do have a point.
I know it is hard, but put yourself in the other people's shoes, do you think America is better today for someone who wanted to finish high school, get a factory job and lead a simple life, dedicated to work and family? In their perception it isn't and they will use their right to vote to try and change that. And most important of all, a net gain of economy doesn't not necessarily benefit those people.
Except in many European countries your liberties and freedoms is are controlled by the government for the sake of perceived safety.
We have a saying here in the states. "Those who can give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety". We also say, "Those who deny freedom for others do not deserve it themselves."
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I see plenty of people on both sides of the political spectrum quite upset at him. The strangest of all are the ones that are most verbal are the ones that can't even vote in an US election.
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They were both quotes from his memoirs.
I am sticking with Plato here and since the problems which led to the fall of the Attic democracy seem to resurface these days I think it is important to remember what he once stated about democracy. He didn't believe in democracy to function permanently because people usually do not educate themselves about the matters at hand but rather get influenced by educated people with personal agendas who tell these people what actually matters and how much. He also described the effect of the lack of said education in his allegory of the cave which kind of describes why facts even if known are denied on grounds of incomprehensibility. The effects he described as anarchic society which leaves little unity but huge divisions leading to excesses and extremes leading to a complete dismantling of ochlocratic societies where the most evil tyrants of all will ultimately assume the reigns and using the cries for extreme levels of liberty to create extreme levels of slavery and tyranny. It has happened once and as it seems is going to happen again since only a few really want democracy to actually survive.
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Very good questions to think about.