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> The politicians are awful, but in a democracy, the fault for that lies 100% with the people. Democracy is a convenient way for the ruling class to hand-pick
by mullingitover 5y ago
> The politicians are awful, but in a democracy, the fault for that lies 100% with the people.
Democracy is a convenient way for the ruling class to hand-pick the people who are allowed to run for office and blame the voters for any bad results. There's research showing that there's very little correlation between the policy goals of the voting public and policy outcomes, but there's a strong correlation between policy goals of the ruling class and policy outcomes.
- jameshart 5y agoseems tautological. If you accept that there is such a thing as a 'ruling class', then presumably the only way to define them is 'the people who get their policy goals accomplished'. Because that's what 'ruling' means.
- mullingitover 5y agoIt seems awfully naive to pretend there isn't a class that generally is catered to by government. They're typically some or all of these: - in the top .1% of net worth - in executive leadership positions - attend elite universities - frequently possessing generational wealth I hope this helps.