Wisdom of Democracy

A functioning democracy relies on the Wisdom of Crowds to elect good representatives. The Wikipedia article describes four attributes of crowd intelligence: (1) Diversity of opinion, (2) Independence, (3) Decentralization and (4) Aggregation. In the past, these were all reasonable emblematic of the Democratic Party. But today's Democrat Party is very much under the control of the business establishment and closed to alternative views.

The election of 'POTUS' DJT was a failure of crowd intelligence. The intelligence of Trump voters have been under direct assault by the right wing media for decades. Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Breitbart and InfoWars are only a small selection of media which deliberately deceive their audience with slights of reason, misdirection and outright lies. The election of 'POTUS' DJT was their highest achievement.