Yes, we’ve debated over these points before. I vehemently disagreed with you, remember?
But as the tone of this thread is more open to ideas of all kinds, I welcome your suggestion that we raise the voting age.
Also, I’m in full agreement that the problem is that the leaders of America are “unwise,” and I blame this on education (this is something else we disagreed on, remember that?). Education is seriously underfunded in the US. What we’re seeing with the idiocy of American leaders today is a result of this underfunding having caught up with the older generation. What was once a child receiving a poor education back 30, 40 years ago is now the president of the United States (and I mean that as a generalized metaphor, not that Obama himself was literally undereducated).
Why would the people vote for it? Is it based on trust in the people running the show? That the NSA knows what they’re doing and that they have every good intention? Do you think this is actually true?
Why do you think democracy is the problem? What do you imagine as being a better system?
And when was that?
You do realize that a “republic” is a society in which the government is owned by the people and perhaps made up of the people? It is a system in which the people rule over their government. It’s true that this is not necessarily a democracy, but I’m not sure how you could prevent the leaders of a republic, even if they came from the people, from becoming corrupt unless you had a democratic system.
But you still vote for your president, do you not?