Re:ESR should go out sometimes (Score 1)

ESR just realizes the fundamental contradiction in believing that 'social democracy' ... i.e. that a group of people who don't know any better than to not take bad medicine ... acquire the ability to vote for laws that do tell them and others what they must not do. Or in short form, the idiots are too stupid to run their own lives but are smart enough to run their neighbors.

In most modern democracies you don't get to vote for laws( all the time), you vote for an elite who are advised and influenced by other elites. Some of them are knowledgeable.

Your whole argument hinges upon a naive definition of democracy.