Modifying the weakness of democracies

Raymond Cattell had an interesting way of modifying the weakness of democracies, which tend to end up with the legal robbery of haves by have nots.

Cattell, a British and American psychologist known for his psychometric research into intrapersonal psychological structure, put it this way: majorities in democracies can tell you what they want, then an elite selected by comprehensive testing of merit can help you actually get what you want, rather than the ill-informed, greedy, power hungry, corrupt, selection process of most democracies.

The idea is to modify the weakness of democracy with a healthy form of meritocracy. Cattell based the selection of merit on his psychometric research into intrapersonal psychological structure, with such things as his empirical studies of Culture Fair Intelligence Tests to minimize the bias of written language and cultural background in intelligence testing.

The related subject of an ethnopluralism of ethnostates also seeks to conservatively modify the weakness of democracy by advocating a reinvigoration of federalism to deal with the growing variety of ethnic groups in America with different genetic pools and different agendas, by adapting the Constitutional separation of powers and states to develop ethnostates, in harmony with real kin and ethnic-centered human nature.

These ideas, which sometimes seem pie in the sky, conservatively reform what we have now rather than having destructive radical revolution from the left or the right.