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The Dilemma of Democracy
The Dilemma is That of a Government Trying To Be an Authentic
Democracy with the Populace Not Having the Knowledge or Intelligence
Sufficient for the Task
By Edwin L. Young, PhD
An examination of America’s range of I.Q.s and highest level of education attained
suggest that only a small percentage of the American population would be able to
sufficiently understand the vast and complicated issues that are set before the
voting public. It is a reasonable surmise to say that the illusion of an intelligent
voting public is perpetuated by the corporate owned media giants since these are
the ones who mold the voting public’s opinions on the vital issues put to voters. It
is probably likely that when the general public votes for a candidate whose
‘platform’ is agreeable to them, the reality is that when in office the substance of
the issues upon which they act are extremely remote from what was publicized by
the major media channels during the election campaigns and what the populace
vote for. The substance of the issues that determine actual domestic and foreign
policy and action are unknown to and completely mentally out of reach for the
minds of those who make up the vast majority of the populace. Democracy,
therefore, is a complete and total illusion.
Furthermore, the officials elected by the public are not beholden to that public but
rather to unknown extremely wealthy elites who fund candidates campaigns and
who determine, precisely, how those office holders will vote on major national and
foreign issues. These modern multinational elite billionaires are the ones who
actually run the US and the rest of the world save, possibly, some of the
Scandinavian nations, China, South Korea, Canada and maybe a few others that
are cited in the referenced chart. In the beginning to the US, the leaders were the
landed gentry, most of whom owned plantations and their workers were almost
exclusively Black African slaves. Many of those landed gentry who constructed
the new republic were probably, as was certainly the case with Thomas Jefferson,
not just extremely well educated but had genius level intelligence. However, their