Since, like the chinese system demonstrated knowledge of the political system is

Since, like the chinese system demonstrated knowledge of the political system is demonstrably harmful compared to the british requirement for demonstrated SUCCESS in the production of the private and common before one could participate in the political process.

The political process is relatively meaningless. It is a market for favors within a market for divvying up the spoils of population density.

So while we originally had a ‘house’ for each class: the monarchy (‘private governor of last resort’), the regional nobility (private ‘governors’ of regional businesses), the house of commons (‘private governors of homes – small businesses’) we now have majority rule by women and the peasantry.

Where Jefferson’s intention was to widen the net of enfranchisement as widely as possible because nearly everyone participated in the markets (owned property, farmed), but where the lower classes (slave, ‘serf’, employee) who were not successful at responsibility for others, had no influence – today what percentage of people demonstrate responsibility for (a) the business of the home (b) a small or medium business, (c) a large business or region. And what percentage of people are outside of the market where goods and services must perform? (media, schools, academy, state bureaucracies, and employees of most businesses).

So the question is not *who knows how the government works* (since it’s a trivial question), but *who can produce demonstration of knowledge of how the world works, such that we minimize the damage that slaves, serfs, employees, bureaucrats, and intellectuals, who don’t have any warranty of responsibility cannot do the damage to our civilization*

It is one thing to say we should not have mob rule. It is another thing to say we should have ‘reported pretense of understanding’, and quite another that has DEMONSTRATED application of understanding.

In other words, a bureaucracy with ‘reporting’ epistemology is just another self-reinforcing fantasy priesthood (like the postmodern academy) while a DEMONSTRATED epistemology provides a the only scientific method of selecting people for the operation of a government.

Reasoning is nothing without empirical, operational, rational, reciprocal, and fully accounted for tests of one’s reasoning. Reason is just another form of fantasy literature.

It’s acting with it as a formula that decides the veracity of the literature.