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Only there's one flaw to that suggestion Skybird that is who decides just who are qualified to vote and who don't. And to have representative voters is not something new actually. It had been done in countries such as ours then where only the members of the legislation voted on who was going to be the acting head of state. And the only reason to that was that because it is SO MUCH EASIER to control and corrupt those few members of the legislation than risking losing due to unpopularity with the whole members of the nation.

The current people's voting in democracy is done basing on the assumption that the general population is expected to be able to pick the personality that they think would be best to represent them as their leader.

Because one who is out of power cannot influence the whole people of nation other than out of personality power and that it is expected that the shown personality which is the basis from which the people elect their leader is genuine which is why relying on census, mass approval or mass judgment become important and that the public(people) are able to scrutinize the candidates past lives and political performance and decisions again relying on census of opinion of the general population.

In the end in the event when a bad leader is elected democratically it falls on the responsibility of the people who elected him or her AND the system which MUST allow leadership change constitutionally whether through next election or lawful dismissal.

That is still far more fault proof than handing the voting to a select few who are easily intimidated, corrupted and eventually controlled. More often than not bad leaders are elected out of failed and abused democratic system rather than misjudgment of the people.

As with Germany electing Hitler(as example) to me it wasn't a fault as Hitler then was really popular to the people of Germany as far as I know. In the end the fate of a nation must be put into the hands of the very people who have the greatest stake in that nation i,e the citizen of that nation.[non political as it refers to historic event]

But I can see the point which you made the basis of your argument. The fault doesn't lie with the system however imo but with people's attitude or rather lack of it or ignorance or indifference to political process in his or her country. That can only be remedied through long term political education and social enlightment. More often than not political apathy when prevalent in a society is the direct result of the loss of trust to the democratic system itself which is often abused and made a mere tool to gain legitimacy for the ruling party or dictatorship.