Weighted voting not a cure for democracy

The meat-grinder politics beginning with the 2016 campaign has triggered proposals to rescue us from a crisis of democracy. At least two authors — Jason Brennan, in Against Democracy and Dambisa Moyo, in Edge of Chaos — have suggested that letting more knowledgeable citizens’ votes count more might be a useful reform.
Both trace democracy’s problems to voter ignorance. However, its cause is largely that an individual casting a better-informed vote will not