Making sense of Pakistan: Imagining Pakistan sans the religious fixation

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Re: Making sense of Pakistan: Imagining Pakistan sans the religious fixation

@Med911

This is WHY an education is so important to a democracy. For a democracy to function, you have to have informed and educated citizens.

Uneducated and brainwashed people who have no understanding of history or politics, and are by definition, expected to make mistakes. Elite or not, an education certainly does give you an advantage in terms of deciding what is right or wrong.
For example, uneducated people have no understanding of how dangerous it is to mix religion and politics, because they dont have the slightest clue as to how such a setup has fared in the past, or how it is faring in the society they live in.

The stupidity here is being expressed by you…

If you dont understand basic points regarding historical FACT, then im sorry, you just need to go back to school.

Yes everybody who voted in US elections back in the 1700s was an educated man with a college degree? None of them were simple farmers who couldn’t even read or religious individuals who came to the US for religious freedom. Nope. They were all Harvard graduates. History has effectively proven that a small elite educated or wealthy will abuse their powers and not support democratic values. That is the essence of the french revolution and the reason why democracy requires an equal vote per man or woman.

Democracy does not mean that a limited small elite decides for the rest of the people. That my dear friend is an oligarchy.