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But they score #1 in their confidence to do math
In China it's the exact opposite. They test much higher in ability to do math, and Lower in confidence
America is in it's dumbing down phase. We've got a very toxic and coddled culture.
if you look at individual states you'll notice it can get way more competitive. Places like california are skewing it a lot. Still needs to be fixed after so many years of neglect by democrats.
Gen Z is showing some hope, too. thankfully.
the youth is the future, as always
The youth is Hispanic which has a very different outlook on education
lol
Democracy is the will of the people
If the people willingly choose a dictator
That is democracy
so people collectively deciding on imposing nuclear suicide on the human race is equally democratic then
That is an absurd scenario, but yes.
If democracy is pure then whatever wins, wins.
It isn't like the people of Brazil don't know who Bolsonaro is
It is why they voted for him
democracy in your context could not care about outcomes.
again with the contextual example I used
That is democracy in any context.
The will of the people
the will of the people does not account for outcomes lol
but obviously, we have some ounce of rationality in our society even with uneducateds in it, so that isn't happening
That isn't democracy then
Democracy includes the uneducated
Pure democracy is dangerous, right? Why not let the smartest people in a Gaussian distribution make the decisions.
2 standard deviations above the rest only
IQ doesn't inherently make people decent human beings
That's dangerous too, but a better alternative
No, it doesn't. But you don't want the decision makers to be too morally inflated.
I dunno where to find a balance. Probably the way the US does it, we have a good balance of cold hard truth and coddling ourselves like infants
The US is far from a democracy
I never said it was
They do a good job balancing the duality though. Seems like the power shifts every election cycle between what's expediently moral, and hard truths that need to be discussed in order to get desired outcomes in the long run
The courts are more powerful than any other branch
And not much gets done
I don't think they are that powerful. Not unless you listen to the recent far left media portrayals. Ben Sasse from Nebraska does a good job summing up why it seems that way
He spoke a bit during the kavanagh ford inquiry
The courts can block anything they want
Individual federal judges can block executive orders