Quote Originally Posted by SwordsMaster View Post
That is bull and you know it, and I have never defended anything like that.
However, what you imply and suggest is that style of system with the bottom working for master as it is inevitable, right? On the same lines, your stance on the slave trade is you transfer your same argument across is that "you will be serving one master or another, what is the big fuss?".

What I am defending is restricting the pool of candidates, and doing so by allowing votes to people who are capable of making a decision and appreciating its consequences. I don't want idiots who don't know where they are on a map to be deciding anything for me!
And this same elite will be telling you what to do as you won't have the vote either. Then again, you don't care if you are pushed around, abused and told what to do from what you are saying. The problem with having a true democracy and fair system of government are people like you who seek to distroy the notion of what government should be and you concentrate everyone on the worse examples and rather play fetch with master.

And I was pointing out that an educated and sane candidate such as Charles would be a good head of government. I take Louis' point about inbreeding and so on, but that's not what I'm advocating, which is why I brought up the Vatican as an example of an election of a "first among the peers", rather than elevating this man so high from so low he gets vertigo. I mean, think about it, a college degree, which makes you minimally competent to have a job takes 4 years. You're not put in charge of the company at that stage, you're given an internship. Why do you think, then, that a man that has been in power for merely 4 years has any real idea of what he's doing?
You are forgetting just like in companies, politicians work up job-ladder in just the same. Becoming PM/President is merely a promotion from a previous position such as member of the cabinet or a senator, they do know what is going on. Then again, why do we need a Head of State?

Honestly, I have to say, is not so bad.
Yes it is.