I don't think there's anything wrong with inteligence or knowledge tests. People obviously have wildly different abilities to make good decisions.
The real issue is that western societies are built on individualism and the is that everyone is equal when they are obviously not and this would expose the lie.
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However, the real issue is that decisions are packaged together. People vote for a party which they agree with on a few issues (or just one) and the rest become the noise.
So we need to split voting by issue. You could have one vote to determine which issues people care about most, then have multiple separate parlaments - but there would need to be a mechanism to force them to only write laws for the specific issue which is hard.
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We could also allow people to override the votes of their representatives. The more people vote directly, the less weight the representatives have.
The real issue is that western societies are built on individualism and the is that everyone is equal when they are obviously not and this would expose the lie.
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However, the real issue is that decisions are packaged together. People vote for a party which they agree with on a few issues (or just one) and the rest become the noise.
So we need to split voting by issue. You could have one vote to determine which issues people care about most, then have multiple separate parlaments - but there would need to be a mechanism to force them to only write laws for the specific issue which is hard.
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We could also allow people to override the votes of their representatives. The more people vote directly, the less weight the representatives have.