The biggest problem is money in politics. Money means rich people get their way.

They want people just smart enough to press buttons on the rich person's factory floor but stupid enough to vote how rich person's news channel tells them to vote.

There are probably enough people that aren't so stupid that you could educate them enough to vote in their interests if you can get to them against all odds. You just have to get through the social media algorithms and mass media blockade that are completely against change that would hurt their owners profit.

Who's going to decide who is smart and who is stupid?

The cure is simple, stupid people can’t vote or at least stupid people can’t be candidates.

How democratic of you.

The cure is simple, stupid people can’t vote or at least stupid people can’t be candidates.

While I agree that in principle this would solve a lot of problems with our current setup, in practice the racists and idiots always end up getting control over who gets to vote and who doesn't, and they end up only allowing people they approve of to vote. It's been tried before and it failed spectacularly due to corruption, like most things.