On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:01:09AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Seriously, democracy is not the elixir for all ills.  Democracy takes
> time, and sometimes the will of the masses is not necessarily the
> course of wisdom.

I don't think there are any recorded instances where the masses were
actually right except by sheer chance, and the US has spent the last
few decades generating examples of how they can be impressively
stupid.

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