Because that’s the only choice, yes? 🙄

As a democracy

That’s an exaggeration.

the US voted for Trump

Yup.

We’ve another 4 years of this tariff bullshit, and his threats to annex Canada / Greenland, and him siding with Putin.

That may be pessimistic (as he may die first) or optimistic (as he may not allow another election - he is already talking about next term).

This isn’t punishment, this is the EU not siding with the bullies

Yup.

Stickers please.

Can you read?

You act like that since I’m from the US I’m somehow incapable of understanding complex ideas?

Your words not mine but essentially, yes. You have been brainwashed. All of you have been brainwashed and stopped caring about facts and truths.

Trump is a symptom, not a cause.

You still didn’t read slowly, did you? 🤣 Try again. And again. And again.

Edit: or maybe it is just the place you are from, all USians I interact with are weird, delicately saying.

Yes.

Are you sure?

You want a system whereby the people with access to the resources needed to educate themselves are the only ones allowed to vote

No.

What’s more, you want to give the power to control access to the ballot to an unelected group of people who get to determine what education is sufficient enough to give you the right to vote.

Also no, although closer. Read again. Slowly. I know you are a USian so I am trying to be as clear as possible: it is called “civil service”. Works in democratic civilised countries, so obviously not in the USA which is neither.

What party?

So you just want an oligarchy?

Can you read?

Complete and utter tosh, although since you are from the USA I can understand why you are seeing the state in such ridiculous way.

There is a number of countries which are real democracies with proper separation of powers and impartial civil service, ie one which is not replaced by a president of the day and not stuffed with his cronies. And belive or not, these people (or “unelected bureaucrats” how idiots like to call them) toghther with intelligentsia are perfectly capable of putting such process in place.

Voting should be restricted to people who know what they are voting for. As as example, a racist gammon who doesn’t have a clue what benefits EU brings to the UK should have no say in a decision if the UK is a member of the EU.

The same with any other elections - simple fact checking questions would get rid of the ignorant bunch who prefer to belive lies. Thus the name “meritocracy” - system in which university professors (example of course, it is about understanding what is being decided, not about titles) and halfwits don’t have the same say in how a country is ruled.

Right, and who do you think would have time to read about the fucking vote?

You are an idiot. As such, you shouldn’t have a say or vote for issues you don’t have a clue about.

Did it ever occur to you that tests introduced with an aim to discriminate may give different results to polls introduced by impartial, apolitical body with the intention to ensure people actually know what they are voting for?

Questions relevant to the vote - so for example in the Brexshit referendum, questions would be about the impact of Brexshit, amount of money paid to the EU etc.

Selected by apolitical civil service, electoral commission etc.Yes, that may be challenging in certain countries where everything is political.

Of you, yes. Try to read again, slowly:

Test would contain questions relevant to the vote

Found a USian 🙄

Read again. This has nothing to do with education.

Meritocracy. Compulsory voting but one needs to pass a simple single choice test before being allowed to vote. Test would contain questions relevant to the vote and all the questions (pool of one or two hundred when the actual test would have up to 10 questions) would be publicly available before.

Brexshit would never happened and most the populists/fascists would never be elected.

I don’t discuss with people who downvote my comments.

So you only discuss with yourself?

You clearly don’t care what I have to say.

There is some truth in that, I only pay attention to people who have a valid point.

people who have studied this subject more closely than you

And you know it is how, exactly?

Firstly, the USA is obviously not a “dictatorship”. Come on, be serious. Words mean things.

They do. Have you ever heard about elective dictatorship?

Mere presence of elections, especially gerrymandered to hell and especially where minority can easily win, does not make a democracy.