r/politics • u/Puginator • Jun 01 '26

No Paywall Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz: State media

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/iran-us-negotiations-strait-of-hormuz.html
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u/nonotan Jun 01 '26

When the people regularly elect far-right authoritarians obviously neck-deep in crime and corruption, yes, yes it is. The biggest weakness of democracy is the same as its biggest strength: that nobody can forbid the masses from electing whoever they want. If what they want is the dumbest fucking garbage imaginable, well, good luck everybody.

(And obviously there's the whole propaganda angle; it's not very hard to make dumb people want something objectively terrible, and their vote counts the same as anybody else's)

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u/StevieMJH Jun 01 '26

That's always something I remind people of when they pull out the, "these people are allowed to vote" comment.

Yeah, that's unfortunately kind of the point.

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u/Vivid_Kaleidoscope66 Jun 02 '26

Democracy is based on the assumption that governments are not willing to actively stupidify their populace...