<oy>Rephrasing poll questions reveals that many people don't understand the
issues that they have just offered an opinion on. According to polls
conducted in 1987 and 1989, for example, between twenty and twenty-five
per cent of the public thinks that too little is being spent on welfare,
and between sixty-three and sixty-five per cent feels that too little is
being spent on assistance to the poor.</oy>

Ignorance of the issues—and, all-too-often, apathy about the issues—is one of the most annoying problems with rabble-ocracy. But, unfortunately, it seems to be the lesser of all the other evils. And as much as I’d prefer some sort of meritocracy, I don’t think that’s gonna happen anytime soon—if the mob isn’t pacified with the illusion of democracy, they tend to get a bit unruly. Wankers.

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Blunderov <squooker@mweb.co.za> wrote:

[Blunderov] (I would be surprised if the following was true only of
America.) This is why the 'democracy' held so sacred by the hoi polloi
of the West is nothing more than a hollow joke (IMNSHO). This is why
reasoning should be taught from day one at school and is also the reason
why, I suspect, it isn't. . . .

’Tis better to have loved and lost

than never to have known what it’s like

to have sex with someone besides yourself. —LenKen

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