Yes it is precisely that. Does that make their opinion the best one? No it does not.
We allow voting outcomes because generally the overall direction is better than the outcome of a dictatorship. However, that is not guaranteed. A democracy is only as good as the people in it.
In fact, our founding fathers, mainly Hamilton, did not believe that the people were capable of democracy, hence why we vote in representatives who are supposed to make the decisions. Advertising political positions directly to the people via PR firms and then voting in candidates based on if they share our belief is completely hotwiring the intended system. The US was not intended to be a direct democracy.
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We allow voting outcomes because generally the overall direction is better than the outcome of a dictatorship. However, that is not guaranteed. A democracy is only as good as the people in it.
In fact, our founding fathers, mainly Hamilton, did not believe that the people were capable of democracy, hence why we vote in representatives who are supposed to make the decisions. Advertising political positions directly to the people via PR firms and then voting in candidates based on if they share our belief is completely hotwiring the intended system. The US was not intended to be a direct democracy.