Because it doesn’t matter? It’s the old “a president I’d like to have a beer with” problem.
You can pretend as much as you’d like that the democratic process is tethered to rationale, but at the end of the day the whole system is set up to be a dog and pony show.
It’s always been a glorified popularity contest and has nothing to do with meritocracy, i.e judging cases upon the merits and demerits.
The problem imho is usability. The system has been shaped to be a popularity contest, but it could very well be shaped into something else.
Because it doesn’t matter? It’s the old “a president I’d like to have a beer with” problem.
You can pretend as much as you’d like that the democratic process is tethered to rationale, but at the end of the day the whole system is set up to be a dog and pony show.
It’s always been a glorified popularity contest and has nothing to do with meritocracy, i.e judging cases upon the merits and demerits.
The problem imho is usability. The system has been shaped to be a popularity contest, but it could very well be shaped into something else.