Claim: Major policy decisions should always be left to politicians and other government experts.
Should all major policy decisions always be left to politicians and other government experts, as the speaker asserts? It is true that in many cases, politicians and government experts can act more efficiently since they are more informed and accessible to more resources. Nevertheless, this argument is highly problematic because it is based on an unwarranted assumption. What’s more, it is a perniciously short leap from excluding general public from decision-making process to autocracy and dictatorship.
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