(December 12, 2016 at 4:48 pm)Zenith Wrote: 1. In Democracy, everybody - of some minimum age - can vote, and the candidate who wins is he who wins most votes (in most systems)
Problem: When you have 10% of people going to vote, you've got 10% of people deciding the fate for the whole 100% of people.
If 90% of the population made the choice to leave their fate in the hands of the other 10%, then there's not really a problem. Or if there is, the solution is pretty obvious: the 90% can head to the voting booth.
Your first point is followed by several points about how the electorate is mostly unqualified to make an informed selection at the voting booth. In which case, if 90% of the voting public is low-IQ, uninformed, incompetent, and has unrealistic expectations... then maybe it's not a problem that only the other 10% are voting. Maybe that's when democracy works best.
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