> Its specifically the role of politicians. Is it? Since when? Certainly they will tell you it’s their role, but why do you think they have ever been the one

> Its specifically the role of politicians. Is it? Since when? Certainly they will tell you it’s their role, but why do you think they have ever been the ones to solve societies problems? Also, how are politicians ‘qualified’? > In a liberal democracy we outsource some of the administration of our lives to politicians explicitly. When did you ‘explicitly’ make this outsourcing decision? I don’t think you did. I think you were just born in a place where you were told that’s the deal. > Those our society's collective fault, It’s utterly meaningless to blame society collectively for anything. > but it doesn't invalidate completely the idea of elective democracy. I guess you have a really rosy view of politicians as problem solvers. I wonder what possible evidence could be driving that idea? > For all it's faults, it beats the hell out of technocracy or theocracy (including "science") based administration. Yes, I agree it’s better than theocracy. No, you can’t claim it’s better than technocracy since you have no examples to compare with.