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[–]Nombre27 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They modify their behavior towards things that are given social currency. They're easily manipulated. I have a feeling this is likely one of the historical (read: traditionally validated) reasons they were denied the vote.

Regarding the vote, I think it would make more sense for one family to have one vote. If you don't have an intact family of your own, then you don't get to vote.

Liberalizing voting just makes atomization that much easier as people end up not having political discussions with their family members.

[–]Richard_Parker[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think if Europe and the West survives this we are going to need to eschew this democracy bullshit altogether. Maybe a model akin to what was depicted in Starship Troopers. Just imagine for example instead of Hitler having absolute power, a council of the Wehrmacht High Command was calling the shots. If we do have a much more limited democracy, there needs to be legitimate iq and education test.

[–]Lovelace 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I used to believe in democracy but then I came to realize that there should be certain caveats to vote; like owning land, paying taxes, raising a family, passing an IQ threshold, being at least a third-generation citizen, lack of dual-citizenship, no crime record, and about a dozen other criteria.

Then I realized that I wasn't even conceptualizing a democracy anymore.