Bryan Caplan writes in “The Myth of the Rational Voter”: “In the naïve public-interest view, democracy works because it does what voters want. In the view of most democracy skeptics, it fails because it does n o t do what voters want. In my view, democracy fails

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it does what voters want.”

Caplan cites H.L. Mencken: ‘I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes.”