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Re:Salim Ismail – Our democracy is about to collapse by anotherarray on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @08:46AM (#12035975)
No. Well-educated, cultured individuals can be just as ideological and destructive as "mere plebs". Take a look at contemporary Academia.

What makes a democracy "work" is a set of established rules that secures the long-term development of the country.

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Re:Salim Ismail – Our democracy is about to collapse by jondubois on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @09:13AM (#12036153)
Agreed, even highly intelligent people can be completely oblivious to certain basic things or have severely skewed views of reality which may actually be worse for society than mere stupidity.
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Re:Salim Ismail – Our democracy is about to collapse by tremon on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @01:17PM (#12037983)
No, I think the GP is right: in order for democracy to work, a significant part of the population must understand how it works, or at least care about how it works. "Educated" does not always mean "high-income" or "high-status" -- it can also just mean what it says.

If you only go by a set of established rules, you:

- are running (part of) your government by autocratic decree.

- still risk the population rejecting your form of "democracy".

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Re:Salim Ismail – Our democracy is about to collapse by dschiptsov on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @08:51AM (#12036014)
Proportions matters.
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