This actually isn't the problem. I recommend you read "The Wisdom of Crowds" by James Surowiecki. It turns out that, past a certain threshold in numbers, neurons (individually stupid) exhibit "emergent order" because they exist in sufficient numbers to "map to a pattern." True democracy does something similar, contingent on a few important variables. (For example, each individual voter must be truly able to select any choice, all of which have the same access to the ballot, ...currently something that isn't true.)
The problem is primarily that we don't actually have true democracy. We have sociopath-rigged-elections (elections that are statistically tailored to remove most competition) combined with "mob rule." Also, see my post on jury nullification to see the many ways that jury trials (1/2 of proper democracy) have been degraded.
The sociopaths in power know that they don't have to entirely get rid of options for freedom, in order to maintain power. They just make those options inconvenient and then that gives them the ability to blame the admittedly lame-ass and apathetic freedom movement for its own failure.
This actually isn't the problem. I recommend you read "The Wisdom of Crowds" by James Surowiecki. It turns out that, past a certain threshold in numbers, neurons (individually stupid) exhibit "emergent order" because they exist in sufficient numbers to "map to a pattern." True democracy does something similar, contingent on a few important variables. (For example, each individual voter must be truly able to select any choice, all of which have the same access to the ballot, ...currently something that isn't true.)
The problem is primarily that we don't actually have true democracy. We have sociopath-rigged-elections (elections that are statistically tailored to remove most competition) combined with "mob rule." Also, see my post on jury nullification to see the many ways that jury trials (1/2 of proper democracy) have been degraded.
The sociopaths in power know that they don't have to entirely get rid of options for freedom, in order to maintain power. They just make those options inconvenient and then that gives them the ability to blame the admittedly lame-ass and apathetic freedom movement for its own failure.