Democracy doesn't work because a popularity contest is a good way to solve problems. It works because the central problem of society is how to make people comm

Democracy doesn't work because a popularity contest is a good way to solve problems. It works because the central problem of society is how to make people communicate without murdering eachother. That's why we have police, why we have the courts, and ultimately, the vote. All these things are ways of resolving disputes without violence. Any effective decision-making that comes out of this is purely incidental.