On 10/15/2016 12:55 PM, Taxed and Spent wrote:
On 10/15/2016 11:51 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per rbowman:
The wisdom of crowds that brought on the dot-com bubble? Or the tulip
bubble for that matter. Mass hysteria is a hell of a way to run a
country.

But isn't that what elections are? (wisdom of the crowd)



That is why we have (or had) a Republic, and not a democracy.

That just concentrates the incompetents in a smaller herd. Exhibit A:
Sheila Jackson Lee:

http://www.dumbocratquotes.com/viewb...hp?personid=40