I don’t know why it is happening to me right now, but all these elections make me more and more Aristocracy-pilled. It’s just not possible to have a flat democracy. People need to delegate their political decision making to people they trust, and make sure those people actually do their homework. The average voter is lighters away from being able to make the correct decisions. They are completely at the mercy of the media, and don’t even want to go on X because it is too “exhausting”. The vast majority of people are not willing or not able to process the world at any level sufficient to make reasonable decisions. I am not writing this with any sort of emotion or frustration - it is a recognition that finally came to me. It’s just logistically impossible to transport the knowledge necessary for reasonable political decisions into a critical number of brains. It’s like giving someone who has never heard of math the mission to determine the area under a curve. “What’s an area? What’s a curve? What means determine? Oh wait I have a hair appointment , see you later!”. It’s not going to work. Delegation is the only way