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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
While I agree that most people don’t understand the cost/benefits of densification, I have to challenge notion that the average person can’t be trusted with these sort of decisions.
The public increasingly hears that they aren’t equipped to decide important things - just leave it to the experts. And then we wonder why populism is on the rise. It’s difficult enough to combat conspiracy theorists who warn of elites taking over our sovereignty, without technocrats themselves and their supporters basically admitting that the public are too ignorant to be given influence over policy.
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How is that different from any other point in democracy. We have always elected people to make these decisions. That people don’t understand representative democracy demonstrates why we need representative democracy