Democracies Idealy Must Fail Poem by James McLain

The sad fact is
people aren't smart enough for Democracy to flourish.

The democratic process is predicated upon individual
assumptions that citizens (the majority of them, at least)
can recognize the best political candidate, or best
policy idea, when they hear or see it.

Whoa, back up
and think about this for a moment,
how many arguments have you had within your
own familia about politics and
religion doesn't count nor should it.

I love southern words.

Now imagine
how your conversation would go
right up to and over
this person
of low unethical to moderate intelligence.

What if this ignorant individual
solved most of their
differences with violence as most still do.

The odds of them then
pulling the wrong lever goes way up
where the lever is pulled, voting for the worst
posible candidate on purpose
just to show you that I can make all of our lives
more miserable.
Ever run across one of those, please don't mix apples
with oranges, concerning me just yet.

Humbled I smile.

Incompetent people are inherently
unable to judge the competence of other people,
or the quality of those people's ideas.

For example, if people lack expertise on justice reform,
it is very difficult for them
to identify the candidates who are actual experts
or they turn to fear that one factor
that enables such folks to actually make a difference
where a difference was not needed to make.

They simply for the lack of
the proverbial picnic and having not the
mental tools or their one sandwich short
unthinking they never needed,
to make a lasting meaningful judgment
or impression therein not felt.

As a result,
no amount of information, data or facts
about political candidates
can over ride the inherent dangers
the inability of voters to accurately evaluate them.

American's don't buy uncle Tom's maple syrup,
they buy...Mmm.. doesn't it taste good
come on now you thought it, spit it out and
on top, beneath the stack of them that.
Most smart ideas
are going to be hard for people to adopt,
because most people
don't have the sophistication
to recognize what a good idea is or where it comes from.

This requires intelligence, good logistical skills,
critical thinking,
sound reasoning and a whole host of other intellectual skills,
most people from birth never had.

I'm sorry to hear Dear,
did you say that Mum before you were born
smoked crack.
Or that you have alcohol fetal syndrome like my daughter
It also requires
the ability to tell the truth from a lie
when it's beig sold,
most folks today by those untruths
then ask why they had such a need to die for them.

Indicating that they would lie about anything
and in retrohence their inability to react
appropriately when one lie they will hear is.
Stupid is as stupid does, where this kind of stupid
effects all of U.S. the vast majority.

Did you like that new word I just invented few knew.

No one likes to be told that they are delusional
when it comes
to their own intellectual skills.
Whether it's correctness of grammar,
or even their own subpar
performance in a game of simple chess
just to keep their wits about them
at the cost of someone else.

By keeping mine, infinitesimally sharp.

Speaking for myself I do this on a daily basis,
that word there above I could get lost in
I know that I nearly did.

Again sadly
people as a rule will always assess
their own performance as above average,
even people like me whom
when tested,
actually performed at the very bottom of
bells sexy curve.
Incompetent people to ignorant to know and
proudly like me they must show it.

But I digress so,
let's just stick with how their lack of mental tools,
affects U.S. the all, in our failing democracy.

Ideally democracy is,
one person,
one vote and it was by they designed to hold hostage.
A persons inability to judge for themselves
new ideas and issues that to them would be
to a few no big problem
so there goes that left handed wrong lever again.

The real world is not an ideal world.
And the further away one moves
from the dream of an ideal democracy,
the less rational voters
like I whom can never vote become.
Take America's
Arcane sex offender laws the vast majority
won't reoffend hence they need not have their lives
destroyed by people unqualified to vote
whom tie their vote premised on said ignorance
to one's running for office.

While those few whom will reoffend kill the child
because the punishment for both crimes is the same,
so they won't alive leave a witness, kinda like letting
your five year old child dictate to you
what they will eat or they will call D.C.F. on you.

Sound familiar.

Not to bright humans as a rule are so very poor
if at best illogical problem solvers
look at the current Ebola
scare and the fear that some Texan, on a suicidal whim
would expose you to certain death...mmm...well they did.

If that were all there was to it,
we could conclude that democracies always fail because
voters can not distinguish between a good idea and a bad idea.

Premature death to me is a bad idea, what do you think?

I could go on and on and say nothing at all like I just did
you smile at the hetic pace I set...Don't let's be obtuse.
The vast majority, I've not touchéd upon.
From birth bless their hearts, they never had a chance
and being as they are
I could not, even if they tried to read this, without developing
a blinding migrain headache.