our basic ideology of democracy says that ordinary people can make wise decisions about policy without expert knowledge
I think it should be at least possible to have an ideology of democracy that didn’t depend on this supposition; it should be enough to be able to know whose expert knowledge to trust in evaluating policy.
I think it should be at least possible to have an ideology of democracy that didn’t depend on this supposition; it should be enough to be able to know whose expert knowledge to trust in evaluating policy.