2pid and US civil law

[Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!]

So 2pid, puzzle me this:

In high school some couple is voted "most popular", "homecoming
royalty" or somesuch.

Are they always the most deserving?

[George M. Middius[_4_]]

Shhhh! said:

> So 2pid, puzzle me this:
> In high school some couple is voted "most popular", "homecoming
> royalty" or somesuch.
> Are they always the most deserving?

They should get first refusal on all new drug deals.

[BretLudwig]

That's called democracy.

Democracy means that the leadership of the nation is chosen by a
popularity contest.

When the electorate is uniformly discerning, uniformly formed in
background and culture, roughly uniformly intelligent-in other words,
uniform- that might work.

The more diverse the population the less suitable democracy is as a
method of governance.

Of course, there are fixes. A _democratic republic_- that is to say, a
republic moderated, weakly or strongly, by democracy-has at least the
stability of inertia. A selective democracy-that is, one in which the
electorate themselves are carefully weeded from the general rabble-at
least attenuiates the baser instincts of the lower human capital elements
of the population. but eventually, as Bastiat and de Toqueville correctly
inferred, in the long run people would figure out that if only those
restrictions were tampered with they could vote themselves their betters'
assets, and that would be that.



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