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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Well, yes - my last sentence pretty much says just that. So the debates would merely be of higher-caliber stuff that the layperson would barely understood, if they even cared to pay attention to it.
...it could be argued that the average layperson barely gets it now, though.
Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold....do I hear anyone for making sure education is adequate enough and not such a large gap between good and bad schools that the average layperson CAN understand it, or am I just a naive little dreamer?
She of Short Stature & Impeccable Logic My Skating LiveblogYeah, well. I wasn't necessarily talking about what conservatives will agree to, so much as an alternative to rolling back Democracy here.
edited 12th Oct '12 2:10:36 PM by TheGirlWithPointyEars
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Seriously. Free pubic education up through the end of high school is mandatory, it's a right. The only thing that apparently isn't is the quality of that education.
edited 12th Oct '12 2:18:01 PM by TheGirlWithPointyEars
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Part of me wishes that we had an... oligarchy... or whatever, where only the best possible candidates are picked and vetted in my a ruling few. We'd have less of this idiotic appeal to popular vote stuff and all the shenannigans that gets lassoed in with it. ...right?
Of course, we'd have an entirely seperate set of problems, like, being under a Ruling Class Of Some Flavor...
Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.