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The entire parliamentary system is set up to follow the public in an intelligent way. It’s not easy to figure out what people think or what they want. It isn’t even easy for individuals to figure out what they themselves think or want. It’s really hard. And these traditions that we’ve set up of representative democracy are ways of listening to the people that are measured and thoughtful and long-term, and they’re being supplanted by idiot opinion polls that are run by people who have instrumental desires. They want to win the next election. I know you have to win the damn next election, you know. But pandering to a mob who’s frightened because you scared them, that doesn’t constitute leadership. It’s certainly not democracy. There’s a reason we don’t have direct democracy.