Is the Public Well-informed Enough to be Trusted with Democracy?

Is the public well-informed enough to be trusted with democracy? Maybe we need to ask whether we can trust the elites with it, as Josiah Ober, a Stanford University political theorist, put it - “we have created a world in which it’s a lot of very wealthy people and technocratic types who are very influential.” We ask everyday people on the street this very question on Third Rail. Comment below what you think.

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