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Old 12-21-17, 05:48 PM   #14
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Bypassing political parasitical castes.
Any type of political system which excludes voters (means-testing) would be a recipe for an authoritarian government. Deciding who gets to vote would be the ultimate goal and to believe that those decisions would be done fairly is wishful thinking.

To believe that there is a better form of government than democracy requires a belief in a better form of human being than the ones that presently occupy this planet. Self interest and self preservation have been bred into the human species and I see no sign of evolution away from it.

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Brennan argues that a new system of government--epistocracy, the rule of the knowledgeable--may be better than democracy, and that it's time to experiment and find out.
My guess is that once the 'knowledgeable' attain power their ultimate goal, like all politicians would be to hang on to that power.

The thing about most democracies is that it doesn't matter who you vote for, politicians basically do and have the means to do what they want. Our only respite is that we can change them every few years. I don't see that changing.
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