Statistically speaking, democracy makes good sense as a first approximation. To wit, let everyone be equal if there is no prior information about anyone. As a second approximation, democracy is already problematic. Not everyone is equal, as is plain to see as soon as one begins gathering information about people. This one is a scoundrel, that one is a lunatic. The more information is gathered, the less sense the assumption of equality makes. The posterior information looms ever larger. Some people should have only a fraction of a vote, and some none at all. In the limit, democracy is nothing but ignorance about people raised to the level of a principle. It runs counter to everything known about the human species. As a consequence, it is pernicious and even immoral. Democracy is about disregard of knowledge and abdication of reason. Statistically speaking, of course.