Well, if that is the case dead, then it seems to me: the geniuses need to figure out a way to rule in the idiots in order to help them achieve a more realistic future.
Either that, of we may presently find that the world we live in is truly unliveable.
For under current conditions, the idiots have no incentive to improve their lot; and the true genius seems increasingly irrelevant to public questions.
If there's a "third way," please -- I'm dying to hear about it.
I think the current system - freedom - is working out just fine.
The KKK hasn't won over many converts in the last forty years. They were allowed to air their message and the very vast majority of Americans have recognized their message as asinine gibberish.
If we suppressed their message, they probably would have grown in popularity as people wondered why it was so powerful it needed to be suppressed.
I should admit I have a selfish reason for supporting their right to parade in hoods in NYC. The semi-annual spectacle is one of the funniest things I've ever seen - twenty moronic hillbillies surrounded by screaming Hasidim, angry lesbians, pontificating black activists, hundreds of cops, dozens of journalists, and thousands of bewildered onlookers.
I'm sorry I enjoy such things, but there's really nothing else good on television.