Yeah, you're right about education. Even if people are asked on election day which candidate is more intelligent, instead of which is "better", maybe that would help, but it seems to me that voters would just assume that they know what's best for themselves and choose an ignorant person anyway. Or maybe they already do that...it's impossible to tell unless we poll voters after elections why they voted as they did...but I'm pretty sure that's illegal, right?

I agree with what you're saying about compulsory voting.

Would you know any kind community discussing meta-politics?

God, I wish I knew of one! I guess there could be a #meta-politics tag, or just use the #sociology tag, I suppose. I've been searching for a way to find how society ticks a la psychohistory (you know Asimov's foundation) so that it'd be possible to envision a system that works more perfectly.

I've been thinking of a web service (if you've seen me around hubski, you know that I'm a programmer) where users would basically set up the government of their choosing collectively, and they could attempt to make the best government possible. It'd be interesting to see, as a simulation, what people would come up with. They could make a constitution, or have anarchy, or whatever it may be. What do you think? I worry it might get out of hand, but it'd be interesting to watch. Since it's over the web, events could happen far quicker than in real life, I feel, so it'd make it easier to examine the broader trends that affect humanity.