I don't know why that's funny, since that is the very essence of the ideal of democracy: the distillation or averaging of the sentiment of the masses yields tru

I don't know why that's funny, since that is the very essence of the ideal of democracy: the distillation or averaging of the sentiment of the masses yields truth. Some contributions are outliers in one way or another, and it's these outliers that live in many people's heads, but these extremes are ironed out by averaging against the masses.