[ExI] Immaculate Election

[Anton Sherwood]

Anton:
>>> [...] and there is little to no benefit to the voter
>>> in making an effort to choose wisely.

Dan:
>> ...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.

Spike:
> The reason I have not chosen to invest the time in that book
> is that I already know Democracies choose bad policies. 

Knowing that they do != understanding why they do.

(Full disclosure: I haven't read it either,
but maybe Dan doesn't think I need to)

> Fortunately the USA is not a democracy.

Also, true socialism has never been tried.

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