The government you (plural) elect is the government you (plural) deserve. If as a society you (plural) cannot figure out how to work together--due to ideologica

The government you (plural) elect is the government you (plural) deserve. If as a society you (plural) cannot figure out how to work together--due to ideological intransigence, culture values that preclude it, unwillingness to put in the hard work of figuring out why "they" feel the way they do, etc.--then you (plural) get fractious government, or what the Greeks called stasis. > I want a republic where educated people have disproportional power to those who are less educated and produce less value Because production of "value" should be the basis of aristocracy? And what is the definition of value? Does the uneducated farmer produce less value than the highly paid FAANG engineer? Well, if the transportation lanes get clogged, their value is going to go up in a hurry when there are shortages in the grocery stores. Does the uneducated garbage man produce less value? Well, stop collecting garbage in the city and you'll figure out what his value is. Does the uneducated janitor have little value? Well, have your company fire them all and you'll see what value they produce. Plato saw the ideal aristocracy as wise, selfless civil servants, which seems like a better system. (Note that education does not produce wisdom. Some educated people are unwise, and some uneducated people are wise.)