i guess the case would be removing the bad without contributing to the good replaces the bad with a roll of the dice? so under some distributional assumptions (say 50/50 good/bad in similar degrees) that has net positive expected value? (we are acting as democracy technocrats here, no?) 1/

but if the distribution is skewed, then it could be net bad. if throwing out the bastards without preparing anything better has a *tendency* to mean sociopaths or fascists or tyrants fill the gap, then the case for this kind of check-the-negative-with-no-positive-capacity democracy gets weak, no? 2/

so do you think it’s reasonable to believe “let an establishment technocracy mostly manipulate and thwart the electorate, ostensibly for its own good, but let the electorate throw it off in extremis, beyond certain bounds” would *not* have a sharp negative skew in subsequent regimes? /fin