[ExI] Immaculate Election

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Jan 13, 2021, at 9:43 AM, Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> On 2021-1-12 13:21, Dave Sill via extropy-chat wrote:
>> Most of the time there aren't even any good guys on the ballot.
>> People are staggeringly bad at judging the character of others.
> 
> I'm not convinced of that.  There are at least two better explanations:  the candidate selection process rewards qualities unrelated to fitness to govern; and there is little to no benefit to the voter in making an effort to choose wisely.

The latter is the gist of Bryan Caplan’s The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, a book I’ve been hoping for years now that Spike would read.

Regards,

Dan