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Re:How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage by snaky on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:19AM (#18618195)
> the common man is simply too dumb to vote

This is foundation of American democracy actually. In the early history of the U.S., most states allowed only male adult property owners to vote (about 6% of the population).

Re:How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage by ceejayoz on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:27AM (#18618269)
And even then, there's an additional escape hatch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector