Problems with Democracy, Part 3

The voters just aren't that good.

(Part 1 | Part 2)

Democracies all over the world are descending into increasingly undemocratic dystopias. Democracy—the very system in which this is not supposed to happen because, at the last minute, the collective wisdom of the voting public is supposed to swoop in and save the day.

It hasn’t. It doesn’t. As we discussed in our first two installments, a…