Apologies, reading your comment was like going down a choose-your-own-adventure maze.<p>For footnote [3] my reply is that representative democracy is one of a vast variety of possible systems you could use. That ratio of yours becomes much less meaningful in say, a liquid democracy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Delegative_democracy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Delegative_democracy</a><p>These two links should (hopefully) address any further questions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fixingtao.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;lunatics-terrorists-and-the-three-noble-truths-of-systems&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fixingtao.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;lunatics-terrorists-and-the-th...</a> + this thread: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10899574" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10899574</a>