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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Democracy works if the populace have a baseline level of education and basic knowledge.

If a majority don't, it doesn't work so well.

[โ€“] Anticorp 1 points 5 months ago

That's kind of why the founding fathers of the United States decided to go with a representative republic and not an outright democracy. That's also why only land owners could vote for a period of time. They had no faith in the commoners, and we're seeing more every day that their lack of faith was well founded. Back then your chances of being educated were much higher if you were a rich land owner, so they put their faith in that, rather than giving the uneducated masses collaborative control over the government.