Would you like 3 wolves and one sheep to have a vote on what is for dinner?
If you look further than the end of your nose, you would see that the majority of Americans could vote to take the money away from the rich and give it to the poor..
Now we have 1 wolve and three sheeps and only wolve has the vote.
You are afraid of majority potentialy voting to take money from the rich minority.
But you have nothing aginst rich minority that has already voted and taken money from poor majority.
And continue to work on makin majority their slaves which should work 10 hours a day for minimal vages til 70 years.
Current system is very effective in preventing majority tyranny.
I agree.
But the side effect is much worse.
We now have tyranny of rich minority.
I agree that most people are not very well educated or informed but i beleive this will improve with time mostly thanks to internet.
But on the other side you have very well educated and inforemd polititions which do not use their knowledge for common god but for stilling even if that means inventing wars and killing people.
I don't see how this can be good.
It is not in human nature to care for interests of other but only their own.
You would rather live in current system in order to prevent potentiol problem then to try different system to try to solve currently existing problems.