democracy

In another thread, @BetteTheRed commented: So if the voting public can't be trusted to behave sensibly and consider things other than self-interest, why are we letting them make these decisions? Plato essentially argued that we leave things like medicine to specialists, so why not governance...

I have often wondered , in Canada, as well as other places ,only people that have money or backers who have money, can run in elections. Saskatchewan is in the process of having two leadership races and every few days the paper announces who has raised the most money through fundraisers and...