To be fair, I'm not sure I'd ever want power in the hands of "the people." The people, as a concept, does not exist, and democracy of the masses is dangerous because the masses are easily manipulable or otherwise King Demos is a tyrannical ruler, governed by base instincts.
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And because of this sentiment, we have an elite class of managers that constantly enact polities that roll up our rights, shift wealth out of our hands into theirs, privatize public resources to sell back to us, sacrifice social services for more lucrative exploits, and create ever more Orwellian surveillance policies sold to us as “protection.”
Maybe the public are dumb and don’t know what’s best. Or maybe it is inevitable that a class of managers will abuse the power they have over the people. I am of the masses, and I think I know what is best for me better than an in-elected oligarch.