What the fuck re: Syria

[wufwugy]

This is why you want professionals making decisions, us amateurs just aren't exposed to the right info.

The problem with democracy is that the people in power are smarter and more well-informed than the voters. The problem with every other form of government is that people in power take more power when they can and thus create aristocracies for themselves and swaths of poor for everybody else

[a500lbgorilla]

The problem with democracy is that the people in power are smarter and more well-informed than the voters.

I don't think this is a bad thing. I also think my example says that you should be highly skeptical of spoon's opening claims. It's easy to fabricate testimonials. Hopefully, a wide variety of people in charge, exposed to the appropriate info, will be better able to vet these sorts of things than you or I.

I respect the process and can't yet think of a better one.