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vlehto  ·  4417 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My thoughts on Capitalism vs Socialism.

To me it seems simple that congress should make intelligent laws.

The real problem is how to elect such congress? Who would decide what's intelligent if not voters? To have intelligent voters you have to educate them somehow and that sound quite like nationwide brainwash. Western democracies already apply education to pretty much everybody, and that's another weird problem. If people at 1800 elected stupid dudes who made stupid curriculum, then we are in a rut of stupidity educating stupidity, electing stupidity educating..... You get the point? Only fair thing to do is to limit voting for those who are actually interested in it. So no compulsive voting thank you.

Then we get into meta-politics, could we somehow by the means of day to day politics inject some-kind of functions to our political systems that would make them inevitably better. It's too difficult thing for me, I'm just to become product designer. I don't need to design foolproof... ;) There are usually some already. Similar thing as congress in our country has to have 5/6 votes to pass a new constitution, and the next elected congress has to approve it with 2/3 or something.

Would you know any kind community discussing meta-politics?