Comments on: Ignorant and irrational voters http://www.toomik.net/helen/blog/2006/11/07/ignorant-and-irrational-voters/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:17:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Helen http://www.toomik.net/helen/blog/2006/11/07/ignorant-and-irrational-voters/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Helen Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:56:42 +0000 http://www.toomik.net/helen/wordpress/?p=185#comment-142 <a href="http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2006/11/bryan_caplan_is.html" rel="nofollow">A commenter at Marginal Revolution</a> summarises Caplan’s thesis very well: <blockquote>His complaint about irrational voters is not so much that voters want irrational things, but that voters vote for policies that have the opposite effect of what the voters say they want. So, he's not so much "the elite should tell us what we should want", but more of a "having said what we want, the elite should prevent us from doing things that take us away from that goal". </blockquote> A commenter at Marginal Revolution summarises Caplan’s thesis very well:

His complaint about irrational voters is not so much that voters want irrational things, but that voters vote for policies that have the opposite effect of what the voters say they want.
So, he’s not so much “the elite should tell us what we should want”, but more of a “having said what we want, the elite should prevent us from doing things that take us away from that goal”.

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