[anotha1]

Democracy doesn't work when the citizens are manipulated due to their lack of intellect.

[Bancakes]

So your idea of democracy is "only these people should rule you, whether you vote or not."?

[anotha1]

It's disingenuous that you're using quotes to represent something I never said.

Education is lacking, democracy is suffering because of it.

Anything else you interpreted is based on your own biases.

[cookiengineer]

> Education is lacking, democracy is suffering because of it.

We can only re-balance the power of manipulation through developing technology that values identity and transparency over fraud and misconduct (or social acceptance aka likes).

Currently, the economics behind misinformation are only feasible for a handful of institutions; and that unbalanced the power of acquiring knowledge online.

The Web has failed us as a technology, in the sense that its intention liberated knowledge to the people at first but then gradually pushed control over its discoverability and "trustworthyness" away from the people.

[Bancakes]

Democracy is doing just fine. Anyone can vote, fool or laureate. That's democracy, and nothing more.

[the_only_law]

How much longer can that keep up until we see some sort of strange Balkanization and increased secretarian violence.

I don’t see how we can keep up the facade of a united nation where more or less two factions bubble up that are clearly opposed along irredeemable lines (personally I believe there are more than two factions but they tend to bubble up and ally into just two in a way that makes differentiation basically meaningless)

[Bancakes]

I think the USA's current opponent are lobbying corporations, not terrorists or domestic insurgence.

[anotha1]

True, you are correct, democracy specifies no specific outcome.

However, my comment should have read "bad for the outcomes of a democracy."