You are onto something. Recently, I have been considering this, in respect of economic policies. Countries which get ahead (like Singapore, and Switzerland) often have ways of restricting decision making to the property owning class.
Pure democracy leads to endless demands for welfare - by the sort of people who would murder a disabled man.
That’s why we have the Electoral College for one thing.
It’d be nice to get rid of the 17th Amendment for one thing. But it’d be nice to restrict voting to age 30 and older plus be a business or homeowner. Basically it comes down to those who have a stake in the success of their country and their respective State should be allowed to vote.
“Countries which get ahead (like Singapore, and Switzerland) often have ways of restricting decision making to the property owning class.”
To vote in this country you used to have to be a male, white, property owner.
The libs and women screwed us!!
My mother claimed giving women the vote was the stupidest thing they ever did. She said she already had a vote in the kitchen and the bedroom!!
Up until some SCOTUS decisions in the 1960's, rural areas in the US had much more political influence.