I agree. Giving the uninformed a vote is like giving hand grenades to a monkey.
I agree.
But this is a problem which has caused a fundamental crisis as a result of generations of court decisions that meant well, but had the effect of realizing all the dark predictions of deToqueville's Democracy in America. The pessimistic musings concerning the function of a democratic representative government "run" by the ignorant and the uninformed.
Worse yet, a system where all the darkest facets of human nature regarding the free lunch and the explosion of "rights", including the right to be totally unproductive, unemployed and totally lacking ambition, yet voting for limitless spending and corresponding taxation, all paid for by "other" people". It takes a truly defective mind to fail to see the inevitable end to that road!
Now for a serious question. This subject, voting by the ignorant, and its evolution, certainly deserves book treatment. There must be many books on the subject written since the 60s War on Poverty. I would welcome any and all titles the readers, here on FR, can provide for me.
In my library I have many myself, read over the years and stored but, surely, I must have missed some gems. The stuff must hit the fan, sooner or later. There is no limit to growth, so long as all contribute. The disaster arrives when the "takers" outnumber the contributors.
Personally, I believe that has already happened, but the social nervous system has failed to send the signal to the brain.