It's The Worst System There Is, Except For All The Others

Former Obama OMB chief Peter Orszag is annoyed that all the hoi polloi of democracy keep screwing up the brilliant vision of liberal technocrats, with an article with a sub-headline of "Why we need less democracy."  Peter Suderman at Reason does a nice job of taking apart Orszag's argument, which I can summarize with the help of Kent Brockman...



He might be right. After all, democracy led to the Presidency of Barack Obama.