[dllthomas]

> In a democracy, we're not the ones who are making the decisions.

In a representative democracy, as opposed to a direct democracy, yes. In much of the US, we have a bit of both, in practice.

But even in the case of representative democracy, as long as deciders are judged based on (proposed or actual) actions, our decisions about the deciders will be based on what we think about those actions. To whatever degree it's a problem that we don't think too deeply about things, it will be a problem in a representative democracy by virtue of deciders thinking deeply about what people generally will think more than what will actually give the outcomes people generally want (where those differ - which is at least "sometimes" by the nature of our premise).