>If you reject the idea that people are intelligent enough to think about politics for themselves then you reject the idea that they're intelligent enough to go

>If you reject the idea that people are intelligent enough to think about politics for themselves then you reject the idea that they're intelligent enough to govern themselves. Elegantly put. It seems you've triggered an avalanche of replies looking to stick asterisks or [#] footnotes and caveats to this statement to suit their biases of the day. Bang some caveats in there and you put universal suffrage as a concept in question.