We Don’t Need Elections to Figure Out What People Want

"As Harari points out, the best way to uncover truth is to reject popular opinion and to lean on the strengths of our institutions."

Unelected bureaucrats deciding everything?

No thanks. Voting may not be the prettiest, but it spreads it out. If you don't like things people are voting for, then convince them to do otherwise.

Maybe if you can't convince enough people to vote the way you want things the issue is with your ideas, and not always them.

Eh?

That's not what they're for? It's to mediate between groups of people who want different things, or who want different people to represent them/hold power. You're supposed to know what you want, and who you want to represent you, and voting is just the agreement between everyone of how to move forward regardless of what you want. Unfortunately that's in theory only.

> What people disagree on, and what elections really come down to, is figuring out the best way to achieve the above objectives.

I think the disagreements are even narrower than that. The structure of the government is pretty much fixed, so are the vast vast majority laws/institutions/legislations/policies/etc. What people are voting on are minor modifications to the existing system.

I believe that "we all do better when we all do better", but not everyone does.

Sadly, some of the most driven, charismatic, influential people don't believe it.