Comment Re:like democracy works? (Score 1) 436
I just think there was a reason that at the beginning there were serious qualifier for who could and could not vote. i.e., landowners had that right. When the mass populace is mediocre, we are all affected by it. When the mass populace is more easily swayed by shiny marketing than ideas, we who think and consider are affected.
For your #2, no party should be running or governing the election. that kind of bias is what ruins the "freedom" in voting. I wish our republic was so in the stricter sense of the word, I suppose.