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Originally Posted by Oberon
Even if the president was democratically elected, if he was chosen by the people?
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What worth is your freedom of choice, if you have been fed manipulated info on which to make your decision?
The worth of elections is so very much overestimated in the West, in order to make the voting cattle satisfied with having nothing more to say then a cross on a ballot every four years. But even beyond that, elections are not centre and major focus of democracy. They are just a technical tool. Even if one would hold a more positive view of democracy than I do, one should be aware of this.
And it gets abused massively by both the voters a d the candidates.
Precious and significant is what is rare. Your vote in a meeting of ten voters - that is one thing. Your vote in an election having 30 million votes - puts the importance of your precious wonderful great vote into relation. On that scale, it is not the individual vote that has a meaning, but crowd dynamic havetaken over. And these are in explicit rejection of the individual.