Thesis: the median entity in any large group never matters and therefore the median voter doesn’t matter and therefore the median voter theorem proves that democracies get obsessed about stuff that doesn’t matter.
A lot depends on your definition of “matter”. Interesting and important debates are always on margins of disagreement. The median member likely has a TON of important beliefs and activities that are uncontroversial and ignored for most things. Those things matter, and they matter more than 95% of what gets debated and focused on.
The question isn’t whether the entities matter, but whether the highlighted, debated topics matter.
Thesis: the median entity in any large group never matters and therefore the median voter doesn’t matter and therefore the median voter theorem proves that democracies get obsessed about stuff that doesn’t matter.
A lot depends on your definition of “matter”. Interesting and important debates are always on margins of disagreement. The median member likely has a TON of important beliefs and activities that are uncontroversial and ignored for most things. Those things matter, and they matter more than 95% of what gets debated and focused on.
The question isn’t whether the entities matter, but whether the highlighted, debated topics matter.