Off-Topic Elections

[John Adams]

Define: "educated."



So you really don't agree with Conrad then. Why did I think you did?

No, I agree wholeheartedly with Conrad.

The ideal government is what has been put forth before.

But ideal rulers, for that government, are few and far between. Under the inept, corrupt, administrations of those not fit to lead (such a government, or otherwise), the government forms a stranglehold upon the people it is supposed to protect, that is what my last paragraph referenced.
Therefore, as a failsafe, it is best (in the realworld), to provide the population with voting rights, to prevent such an occurance.

However, if a suitable leader could be found (and history shows there are many, Trajin, or Hadrian, for example), then the ideal government does not, by default, include the voting rights of the people to change it (as, the majority being uneducated, would undermine the government).

~John