The best counter-argument I can provide to your wonderful ideal is that people are stupid, and they are vulnerable to being manipulated into believing dangerous peace-disrupting falsehoods by propaganda.

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littlecranky67 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Spinning your thoughts further, you assume that stupidity is not some kind of freedom that you get to enjoy in a democracy. The opposite is true, people are free to be stupid, and if the majority is stupid, the smart people have to give in to the fact that stupid people make the rules (by voting).

The whole idea of supressing stupidity in a democracy leads to some sort of elitist society.

	▲	Barrin92 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		>The whole idea of supressing stupidity in a democracy leads to some sort of elitist society. there's nothing wrong with this. Stable democracies tend to be republican and elitist. One of the reasons why the US has been, until recently, an exceptionally stable country was because decision making was largely insulated from the whims of the public. Democracy properly understood is best used as a tool for legitimacy and as a check against the worst abuses of power, not actually as a tool for decision making. Having the inmates run the asylum is generally a bad idea, we've known this since Plato.

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moron4hire 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

If the people are too stupid to discern propaganda from truth, then they are too stupid to vote.

	▲	jdiff 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Nobody is immune to propaganda. Thinking you are paradoxically makes you more susceptible.