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Honestly? I don't know, and if pressed I'd have a hard time coming up with a usefully specific answer, but I still believe what I do; that not everyone should be forcibly allowed to participate.

Maybe that's helpful? I do think there are marginalized groups and that should be accounted for (ideally, in my limited understanding of the problem, by raising those groups up), but I don't think "baseline" should be, "Everyone is equally involved in steering the US economy."



> > Okay, I'll say it; good. Democracy is fine as a method to run a government, ...

> [...]

> Honestly? I don't know, and if pressed I'd have a hard time coming up with a usefully specific answer, but I still believe what I do;

Strong words spoken from atop the pile of sand.


Yes, I believe something with low certainty, at least partially because I can't fully articulate it. That doesn't mean I don't believe it, however, and I can't think of a better way to grow my understanding of something than to take a position on it on the Internet!

Almost all of my beliefs/opinions are built on some form or another of sand. Certainty is the real mind killer, IMO.




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