A post I made to his SubStack before he blocked me in response to the question: “How can you detest populism and support democracy?”
He can't answer it because he is too fucking stupid to realize that democratic and populist, as Curtis Yarvin has pointed out, are synonyms. The only reasonable attempt at answering this question is the classic "minority of the informed breaking the tie" theory. The idea, which Bryan Kaplan refuted in his "Myth of the Rational Voter", is that ill-informed voters will vote randomly and so democracy actually makes decisions based on the informed minority who break the tie. Of course, this is not true: Even the most well-informed and intelligent vote based on emotion and tribalism, and even the least informed do not vote randomly but rather adopt the voting patterns of those they associate with.
As a rule, democracy does not work: It has worked during certain periods but is highly dependent on the right cultural context. For example, democracy will never work in the Islamic world. It will always produce theocracy because that is what the people will vote to create.
Anyway, you are an idiot. Unsubscribed.