Personally I’ve never thought that. I’ve seen far too much organic stupidity to believe Natural Selection ended for people.

The longer things go on. The more I understand how and why “Elites” of varying status and backgrounds always seem to manage to obtain power. Regardless of the system in place. And legislation meant to keep them out.

And why many thinkers and philosophers. Never seriously entertained the masses actually ever having a say in Government was a viable way of governing anything.

Even initially the U.S was set up to be a Republic for more or less an Elite class. Typically that was the Wealthy. Though a few exceptionally talented people who weren’t exceptionally wealthy, at least initially cropped up periodically.The Number of people who could vote and hold Office was a fraction of the overall population. And the number of people who actually had the resources and wealth to campaign for state and federal office was a fraction of that fraction.

Printing Presses and Newspapers were almost universally owned directly or indirectly by the Wealthy or the Political Parties. With few exceptions. Meaning the Colonial Elite class had a surprisingly tight grip on what was published period let alone published as news. So while technically they had freedom of the Press it certainly wasn’t an independent press.

The General Public was kept sedate with the novel concept of “Inalienable Rights”. And the portion of the population that could read. Let alone the ones who could vote was told how and what to think by one of the assorted various newspapers or publishers they most agreed with. Meanwhile the Colonial Elite were free to actually do the Governing.

Somewhat ironically it was essentially the much maligned Aristocracies of Europe. Just with a few extra steps, a Republican Veneer, and the peasantry given a few freedoms they didn’t have elsewhere to keep them happy. When they for all intents and purposes didn’t actually have much if any say in what the Government was actually doing.

It was only a few decades and several expansions of the franchise later. You saw the whims of the public at large start having some affect on the Governments direction.

Personally I’ve never thought that. I’ve seen far too much organic stupidity to believe Natural Selection ended for people.

Somewhat ironically the longer things go on. The more I understand how and why “Elites” of varying status and backgrounds always seem to manage to obtain power. Regardless of the system in place.

And why many thinkers and philosophers. Never seriously entertained the masses actually ever having a say in Government was a viable way of governing anything.

Even initially the U.S was set up to be a Republic for more or less an Elite class. Typically that was the Wealthy. Though a few exceptionally talented people who weren’t exceptionally wealthy, at least initially cropped up periodically.The Number of people who could vote and hold Office was a fraction of the overall population. And the number of people who actually had the resources and wealth to campaign for state and federal office was a fraction of that fraction.

Printing Presses and Newspapers were almost universally owned directly or indirectly by the Wealthy or the Political Parties. With few exceptions. Meaning the Colonial Elite class had a surprisingly tight grip on what was published period let alone published as news. So while technically they had freedom of the Press it certainly wasn’t an independent press.

The General Public was kept sedate with the novel concept of “Inalienable Rights”. And the portion of the population that could read. Let alone the ones who could vote was told how and what to think by one of the assorted various newspapers or publishers they most agreed with. Meanwhile the Colonial Elite were free to actually do the Governing.

Somewhat ironically it was essentially the much maligned Aristocracies of Europe. Just with a few extra steps, a Republican Veneer, and the peasantry given a few freedoms they didn’t have elsewhere to keep them happy. When they for all intents and purposes didn’t actually have much if any say in what the Government was actually doing.

It was only a few decades and several expansions of the franchise later. You saw the whims of the public at large start having some affect on the Governments direction.