[unityByFreedom]

Then why point to that as a "problem" in the first place.

I agree that including more constituent groups in a democracy makes its administration more complex. But that doesn't make it impossible, and it definitely doesn't make the whole worse-off.

I guess I disagree with Thiel that it makes our system, "capitalist democracy", impossible. We're living it. It's complicated -- but when has government ever been simple in history?

I find his claims of libertarianism as being free from the typical struggles of politics to be extremely out of touch.

Being wealthy can free you from politics, until you start to get interested in it, and then you're in the thick of it just like everyone else.

Also, his "humble" suggestion that others call his projects "utopian", is simply exactly what political candidates say. "I can build your future, just give me your support". I dread the day the public swallows this lie from the likes of Thiel or Musk. It'll be worse than 2017.

[leereeves]

Thiel said "capitalist democracy [is now] an oxymoron", a rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined. In other words, that democracy and capitalism are becoming opposed.

That does seem to be increasingly true.

[unityByFreedom]

It's the premise that is the most controversial, not the conclusion.

People can debate all day over whether America's current system is sustainable. When they start to suggest the inclusion of the female vote is part of the reason for that, they're understandably going to face some backlash, regardless of whatever corrections they make in the future. What he wrote is clear enough, and his correction can be understood by conservatives to be insincere, since it was forced on him by the mainstream view.

[leereeves]

It's hard to deny that women vote against capitalists more often.

Why is it wrong to speak the truth?

[unityByFreedom]

> It's hard to deny that women vote against capitalists more often.

> Why is it wrong to speak the truth?

One could argue that some degree of voting against extreme capitalists has allowed capitalism to endure.

Women got the vote 100 years ago, and America still has the dominant marketplace in the world.

Capitalism has expanded across the world since that time. Even China has largely embraced capitalism.

Nothing is wrong with speaking either a truth or a theory.

However, what you put forward isn't based on any research and sounds more like a stereotype, or your personal experience, than an objective truth backed by science.

In those cases, there can be more than meets the eye.