Often people mock the "normies" and their inability to recognize obvious mechanics in politics. But think about it like this: if you are a soccer mom, you have your hands and brain full with all kinds of things that most people in X don't even want to deal with. From her perspective, we are the blue pilled dummies: we don't even understand why (name of kid) is worried about (thing) in (school etc.) and we don't even know their best 5 friends and what they are all about. Then, at election day, she votes Democrat because CNN told her the day before Trump is a Nazi. She isn't dumb; her focus is just not on the topic. Also, a huge chunk of people don't even vote because they literally don't care. The same is true for AGI, Singularity etc. The bottom line is: yes, some people are dumber and some are smarter. But most people are similarly smart, only with very different compute focuses. That means that in a Democracy, be default most won't have a clue what is happening and what is true and what is not. Even if everyone would be reasonably smart, the majority would RELY on a few to make the decisions for them. NOT just in the sense that you would for representatives, but MORE MORE in the sense that you should ask the one member of your family, community etc. what to vote for and let them do the work. That requires people to 1. Have people they TRUST who are actually political 2. Have those people be RESPONSIBLE with their power 3. Have the normies be AWARE that they have no clue and are consciously outsourcing. If 1. is missing, nothing works. If 2. is missing, those people will abuse their power and screw the people who trust them. If 3. is missing, you have Greta running around talking about geostrategy and energy and we all die.