If you think any one person is capable of fully comprehending every relevant detail of every important issue in the country, you clearly don’t comprehend even a single one of them. Frequently, the only rational decision is “Delegate to an entity with the time, resources, and expertise to take into consideration the myriad factors at play”.
Do you want elections every week? Because modern life is too complex and multifaceted for any system with less than thousands of elected experts under that model. Do you think the average individual understands the details of the systems that govern their lives? Do you think they can meaningfully discriminate between experts in each of these systems, and populist charlatans?
If you think any one person is capable of fully comprehending every relevant detail of every important issue in the country, you clearly don’t comprehend even a single one of them. Frequently, the only rational decision is “Delegate to an entity with the time, resources, and expertise to take into consideration the myriad factors at play”.
Then let those people be elected.
Do you want elections every week? Because modern life is too complex and multifaceted for any system with less than thousands of elected experts under that model. Do you think the average individual understands the details of the systems that govern their lives? Do you think they can meaningfully discriminate between experts in each of these systems, and populist charlatans?