The fatal flaw with democracy is that the skills required to convince people to vote for you are completely unrelated to the skills required to successfully run a country.

[anon_opin@mastodon.social]

The fatal flaw with democracy is that the skills required to convince people to vote for you are completely unrelated to the skills required to successfully run a country.

[drorbedrack@mastodon.social]

@anon_opin - Plato , 378 BCE probaby

[sr3@infosec.exchange]

@anon_opin that's the point of a political party, a group of like minded individuals group together and choose someone to be the front man and then when elected, the best for the job within that party get to work.

[sr3@infosec.exchange]

@anon_opin that was the general idea... Then lobbying and big corporations, etc, etc

[janneke@todon.nl]

@anon_opin
If that's a fact then I guess we're lucky that it's not the fact that most people are too stupid to vote for what's in their best interest.

[conville@shakedown.social]

@anon_opin the person most qualified to be a president would never be stupid enough to take the job.

[rayk@techhub.social]

@DrorBedrack @anon_opin

Also, and probably inspired by that:

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job"

- Douglas Adams