Cynicism unclear. Please clarify, do you mean that people are too stupid to bother voting or is it people are too stupid to vote well? I'm still watching Season Five of the HBO program The Wire, so I don't quite have all the answers yet, but I'm pretty sure I remember something about education being as much the responsibility of the democratic state as a democratic people.
Not that choosing between political brand 'A' and brand 'B' constitutes a democracy in the first place, mind you. Let alone voting for a figurehead from either 'A' or 'B' when what we really need is options one, two, three and Medicare for All.
I mean people are too stupid to make decisions about who should lead them. You're right that there isn't really much of a choice, but presumably if you're poor and depend on social programs to survive, when faced with two crappy options, one of which is guaranteed to eliminate those programs, you'd choose the other, right?
You assume the poor realize they’re poor, and not temporarily-embarrassed billionaires.
Ah, that explains it, of course!
Seriously, the problem with Democracy is that most people are too stupid to vote. People don't deserve Democracy.
Cynicism unclear. Please clarify, do you mean that people are too stupid to bother voting or is it people are too stupid to vote well? I'm still watching Season Five of the HBO program The Wire, so I don't quite have all the answers yet, but I'm pretty sure I remember something about education being as much the responsibility of the democratic state as a democratic people.
Not that choosing between political brand 'A' and brand 'B' constitutes a democracy in the first place, mind you. Let alone voting for a figurehead from either 'A' or 'B' when what we really need is options one, two, three and Medicare for All.
I mean people are too stupid to make decisions about who should lead them. You're right that there isn't really much of a choice, but presumably if you're poor and depend on social programs to survive, when faced with two crappy options, one of which is guaranteed to eliminate those programs, you'd choose the other, right?
That would seem logical,yes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-425.../A-poisonous-conviction-taking-root-Left.html
I think he meant voting well. I don't think he is coming from am elitist position, unlike many others, even those landed gentry who founded the US.