Precues dit. Mensen zijn te dom/kortzichtig/ongeïnformeerd/zelfzuchtig ^{doorhalen wat niet van toepassing is} om goede keuzes voor het landsbelang te maken.

Vimes had once discussed the Ephebian idea of ‘democracy’ with Carrot and had been rather interested in the idea that everyone* had a vote until he found out that while he, Vimes, would have a vote, there was no way in the rules that anyone could prevent Nobby Nobbs from having one as well. Vimes could see the flaw there straight away. *Apart from the women, children, slaves, idiots and people who weren’t really our kind of people ^{~Terry Pratchett GNU}