Then just say people are stupid and abolish voting. If the public doesn't have the mental tools to evaluate the simplest of electoral programs then what's democracy even good for?
The "10% less democracy" concept (https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28088) is interesting here, and frames the question as "when and how much" as opposed to "democracy or no-democracy"
HN users: hold my beer
Historically it's amazingly good for rhetorically justifying war crimes and genocide by way of claiming moral highground.