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Why people trust democracy:
>democracy is a system that handles variation of opinions by allowing the most popular opinion to win
>i.e. the most popular opinion has the most followers (i.e. less popular opinions have a minority of followers)
>and because a majority will most likely win in a fight against a minority, then people accept that the majority has won
>democracy is just a way of predicting the outcome of a fight among opinions by handing the win to the majority (since the majority has more power rather than minority and is so more likely to win a fight)
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Why should the opinion of uneducated proles matter for shit other than farming?
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>>39234847
No, democracy is weighing all opinions and finding a compromise that halfway pleases the majority.
Example:
>Person 1: man we really fucked up with slavery. We should give the blacks all our money.
>Person 2: fuck them, I worked hard for this money and my family never owned slaves. Let them rot.
>Solution: let's give them a pittance, enough to subsist on but unless they take the initiative and pull themselves up they will basically still rot.
Another example is the electoral college. The popular vote doesn't always win.
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>>39234847
Not really true in practice
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>>39235325
hehe small hands
Wasn't Trump not chosen by the majority though?
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>>39235152
The electoral college isn't really an example of democracy. It was originally invented because the founding fathers didn't trust democracy, so they wanted a failsafe in case the plebs didn't vote the way the political class wanted.
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