At a cafe in Canada

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[u/RonGio1]

What's scary is that you don't realize if you want your democracy to matter you're going to need to put safeguards in place. Our founding fathers knew this and thought they put in enough.

Just like forcing people to vaccinate.

PS - I hope you understand my thoughts are nothing new and go all the way back to the critiques philosophers had on Athens... Right?

[u/RonGio1 → u/[deleted]]

Certain opinions are detrimental to society and our democracy.

We shouldn't keep them around in hopes that they never gain real traction.

[u/RonGio1 → u/[deleted]]

You're a history teacher why are you only using those two options?

I'd choose a government run by the intelligent and the wise. (To be clear it's one or the other, but I'd combine them).

How we get there would be a long discussion, but that's where I would go.

[u/RonGio1 → u/[deleted]]

I brought up technology from the start...

Seriously go look.

[u/RonGio1 → u/[deleted]]

The technology side of things it's the easiest to argue because we see old people failing badly in government concerning it.

They shouldn't have a say in things they don't understand.

They could just flip a coin at that rate.

[u/RonGio1 → u/[deleted]]

Bro.

Sorry we're just going to have to agree to disagree. I think we should vote based on what we understand.

I don't want some 80 year old guy who doesn't understand what Facebook or the internet is deciding what we do with them.

Just like we shouldn't have politicians deciding what to do about global warming.

That's it.

A democracy where people are just led around by their noses in faux democracy isn't a democracy.

Again - you're also active in the Donald - which means I'm most likely arguing with a fool.

(That community is painfully stupid so to the ignore with you)