> An uneducated populace voting is a worst-case scenario for a representative democracy. I'd probably say that the worst-case scenario is a populace that doesn

> An uneducated populace voting is a worst-case scenario for a representative democracy. I'd probably say that the worst-case scenario is a populace that doesn't care whether their representative is educated on the issues. There are many things that I consider myself uneducated in, but as long as my representative has similar values, is not corrupt, is competent and finds and listens to experts in the relevant fields, then I don't necessarily consider that to be a problem. We should be electing people we trust to care about the detail of stuff that doesn't interest normal humans, not people we'd like to have a beer with.