https://www.econlib.org/the-one-big-fact-that-overawes-all-doubts/ It would be unfair to grabquote this as "Thus, my Myth of the Rational Voter ... uses deeply flawed intellectual methods, and holds a wide range of absurd views" but it would still improve on the original https://tinyurl.com/44pafaz4
@henryfarrell
Whenever I waste time on Twitter and see the trolling blue check responses there, it does create doubts in me about the competence as voters of some folk at least, heh. That's mere anecdote of course, but the book 'Myth of the Rational Voter' does seem to me like it addresses that kind of concern and brings a lot of compelling statistics to bear, even if its conclusions are highly overstated.
(e.g. it seems to me that democracy in practice only needs a few people to be paying attention to each big issue as long they talk to each other and know who they trust. But that kind of collective social process is often invisible to right-libertarians.)
@gabe our lengthy response to it is linked at the end of that post.
@henryfarrell
Ah, apologies for missing that. By force of habit from old days working in security I don't usually click on tinyurls!
@gabe It's a fair practice. I am cross-posting here and at Bluesky, which has yet to set up its own URL shortening, meaning that I either have to do two different posts, or use tinyurl, and I'm lazy (the bane of good infosec, I know, I know)