[jaguar]

Running their own lives is one thing, running government is another entirely. People without a grip on ecnomics theory or policy, history or social theory voting on issues they simply have a limited at bestunderstanding of, the result is bottom-of-the-barrel politics, pandering to people and short-term governmental thinking. Not exactly pretty and in the long term, disasterous.

By riffraff I implied corrupt individuals. There are many that use their power for good ends. Of course your definition of good is always up for debate but one need only look at a man like George Soros for example, to see what can be done.