• ceenote@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    The people in charge really are uniquely unqualified… We might actually get better results randomly selecting people to lead each country.

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      12 hours ago

      This is actually how democracy was originally, not like the modern US elitist version (“representative”) that got exported globally

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        9 hours ago

        There’s definitely something to be said for not doing it randomly and having a sound selection process, but the protections against that process getting corrupted need to be more robust.