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Half of Americans have an IQ under 100. Give them a sound bite about yellow cake uranium and they will line up to kill them some sandniggers. This is not an insult, just an experimental observation.

I would like to see government run something like grand juries. Randomly conscript a commission of intelligent, well-educated people to study some issue, and let them make policy. A non-democratic government need not be totalitarian.



Until those committees start selecting the committees.


Indeed. The committee selection lotteries should be very public and the guardians conscripted from the whole population.




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