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In short, people have a bias where they unconsciously chose to ask questions where the answer affirms their ego rather than proves their ideas were wrong. They do this even if it doesn't help them, even if they are genuinely trying to solve the issue, and even if they've been told already that their answer is incorrect. They are always asking something where they expect the answer to be 'yes' even if an answer of 'no' reveals more of an insight. Why this is important is that it fundamentally disproves that the majority of people are logical or reasonable. They act according to their biases, experiences, and their ego. They don't naturally act according to reason and logic. People can be taught to act rationally, but it is learned and not innate.

"No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." -Winston Churchill

My issue is this means that in a Democracy where the average man or woman is being allowed to vote, there will be situations where the majority are just not able to rationally decide for themselves what the sustainable choice is and logically figure out the answer which preserves their Republic. For example, there is no guarantee that those who argue about the government's economic policies are themselves professional economists or academically competent in this particular discipline, regardless of whether they were well-educated. Essentially this means that a directly democratic government may not be providing the most good for the largest number of people.

The only surviving Republics then are those that become representative, but all representative democratic forms generate aristocracies within their political parties until every party is oligarchic and undemocratic anyway. The people pick between two parties that are constantly in congress with each other and distant from the people, constantly aligning with each other by promises or mutual campaign financiers. In the Democratic Party, there are an increasing number of Democrats marrying Journalists who then attend the same parties, the same weddings, and the same birthday parties.

"It's a big club, and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe." -George Carlin

This issue wouldn't be a big deal if it were explicitly understood. People would understand that the news is just a tool by the rich to keep America to a certain status quo. That the class which makes up the staff in the legislative and executive branches are all intermarried into the journalist class forming a ruling class of bureaucrats who know how to work a crowd but not necessarily how to do their job. That Bill Gates was necessarily a congressional page before he could become a millionaire, which means social mobility rides on a certain course of offices and jobs in order to advance upwards on the social hierarchy. However the Average American is ignorant of the extent to which the billionaire class came from rich parents and certain social connections rather than pure hard work or rare skill set. Worse, this ignorance causes social mobility in the most general sense to die as the majority fail to understand how to properly ascend America's class system.


People stubbornly believe that the proper people get rewarded for intelligence and skill rather than their social connections, however this is the least true today and will be less true tomorrow. There is no changing this in the short term. There are ways to climb the social ladder, but less and less know how. People cannot be expected to understand automatically that their society has changed and the myths are no longer helpful in teaching you the methods of social advancement. For 'the most common cognitive bias' prevents them from asking the questions which would force them to understand today's America. They unconsciously chose to ask questions where the answer affirms their ego rather than proves their ideas were wrong. They do this even if it doesn't help them, even if they are genuinely trying to solve the issue, and even if they've been told already that their answer is incorrect. They will not choose to enlighten themselves, they will have to be forced to confront their bias. However the very structure of their society instead permits them to focus on their prejudices and shelters them from the information that would be used to wake them up to their surroundings.

The media shapes public opinion by supplying the information which the public then use to argue their beliefs. If the only information presented are the one's which allow for democratic or hyper-lolbertarian arguments then a false binary is created where COVID deaths should only be displayed until Biden is inaugurated. Where a motorcycle accident counts as a covid death because covide might have impaired the judgement of the driver, however neither the Microsoft National Broadcasting Corporation or Cable News Network will announce vaccine deaths by such a metric. Nor cover any prominent people who died within 48 hours of receiving the vaccine, even the J&J adenovirus vaccine. Do you think they are any different with LGBT issues, Immigration, or Race relations? They will never teach the public about the system that they are a part of. The system which is killing social mobility.

Instead they are loyal only to their sponsors, or in their billionaire owners who all vote one way. All the while they speak strongly about their press freedoms as if that is a guarantee of a wide range of opinions or at least a way of guaranteeing the whole truth will be broadcast. In either case, billionaires rule and not the average American.

TL;DR: The wise few govern themselves by reason, the average govern themselves by experience. Today the media largely give you your experiences of the world you live in, and they are all busy bonking Democrats and licking billionaire's shoes.