• Kecessa
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    You can be great at what you do without being popular, especially when how popular you are is based on the opinion of an extremely divided population that’s influenced by media that try to make people angry at anything and everything to generate more clicks so they sell more ads.

    That’s why we listen to the opinions of experts, not random Joes. Just go to a townhall meeting to listen to the average person and their take on what cities should do.

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      8 months ago

      In a democracy the opinion of the people matters.

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        When making a list based on the accomplishments and not popularity, the opinion of the majority isn’t what matters.

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          Its a list based on personal opinions of “greatness” not accomplishments

          The primary purpose of this survey was to create a ranking of presidential greatness that covered all presidents from George Washington to Joe Biden. To do this, we asked respondents to rate each president on a scale of 0-100 for their overall greatness, with 0=failure, 50=average, and 100=great. We then averaged the ratings for each president and ranked them from highest average to lowest

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        When people in a democracy decide they want a dictatorship their opinions won’t matter a bit.