…especially in our ever more enstupiated society:
“The opinion of ten thousand men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.” —Marcus Aurelius
And you know, it doesn’t matter if it’s 50 million or 100 million ignorant sheeple. The principle (and its truth) is the same. Compound that by an ever more enstupiated sheeple, and democracy in these (dys)United States becomes a perilous proposition.
Also,
“You may have have no interest in politics, but that emphatically does not insure that politics has no interest in you; you ignore it at your peril.” —Jerry Pournelle