Improving the America voter

Democracies depend on the knowledge and virtues of the average citizen, dictatorships depend more on leaders. Supposedly a Republic as in America has some of both, democratic republics pick leaders who then represent them. How has this been working out?

If public schools and the media largely educate toward modern liberalism, then voters will often, but not always, lean in that direction. This means that the cultures of societies do in fact influence the directions they go, which then affects other things, even human genetics are affected by these social patterns.

For example, we provide around three times more resources to educate a below average student than an average student, and very little or nothing on gifted students. I think we need to be picking up the average within our democracies, which can then help us attain more informed citizens who can pick more farsighted leaders---for the overall good of society.

Of course I am not suggesting that we abandon the below average, but I am saying that if we want to have citizens informed enough to vote responsibly we have to center more on improving the average. Accomplishing this requires leaders who are willing to be called nasty names by the more short-sighted liberals who insist on helping the below average at the expense of the average.

China, for example, instituted the one-child policy in order to combat the terrible suffering of starvation in their overpopulated nation.  The West has criticized China for this, both left and right, but it showed that China had leaders who were farsighted enough to put up with the nasty names they are called by the more short-sighted.

It seems that democracies need to keep proving that they are as good as dictatorships in making tough decisions. For that we need informed citizens who choose informed leaders.