paritosh
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Ok there is a lot to unpack here. Receiving an education is broader than earning a degree. You don’t need to earn a specialisation in politics in order to decide which policy manifesto aligns to your needs. I mean, elections in a democracy are on the broad basic principle that the voter needs to be told what your value prop as a potential candidate is, the voter reads your manifesto and makes up their mind, while looking at other such manifestos. Your voters then track your performance while you are in power against the manifesto and then decide if you are worth putting in charge again or not. Now anyone who receives K-12 education, will be able to get through the steps mentioned in abridged version of the democratic process above. Some would have a higher more nuanced understanding, some will have just enough to understand broad aspects.Totally disagree.
Education or not doesn't matter at all.
I have degree of science but it doesn't guarantee I can understand society or politics. I learn politics all by myself when I was 30s. Politics was not my cup of tea at all during my school time.
US and EU has high education rate, but their people are still brainwashed like 99% of Indians.
Chinese media in contrast seldom made up stories, we seek wisdom from truth and truth only. Chinese understand US society much better from a distance.
Chinese are educated with dialectics philosophy and traditional value, instead of neo-liberal trash or neo-conservative. It's so clear to us that US is on the wrong track decades ago.
It's not about education, it's about how the politics manipulate the MASS. Even the majority of people are educated with degree, it means little.
The average IQ of MASS is around 100. To be a good political leaders, you need very high IQ and EQ, much higher than 140.
Lee Kuan Yew graduated from Cambridge University with a double starred-first-class honours in law.
Lee Hsien Loong was the Senior Wrangler (ranked 1st in the Math Tripos) at Cambridge. He scored 31 alphas*, 12 more alphas than the runner up. A senior wrangler is the top mathematics undergraduate at Cambridge and is one of the greatest intellectual achievements attainable in Britain.
That's how meritocracy works in Singapore. This is traditional Confucius Value, and we pick the best of the best in thousands in China.
While, you see the senate of US? All of them are bunch of idiots.
The simplification on the value prop, or the election promises is in the interest of those who seek to get elected. Hence a doctorate in politics is not required unless you want to become an analyst.
What you described seems very complicated for a large country. A large country also has to worry about universal representation. Each constituency needs a candidate that speaks for the people in that constituency and are a part of the common election framework. Selecting super-specialised candidates that provide universal representation is an enormous drain on the coffers and not sustainable. Basically, you can’t expect a significant quota of super specialised people in any country to be available to participate in a democratic process about not pursue their trade/profession. They can only be ‘selected’ in a non-democratic setup.
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