My faith is not in politicians. My faith is in The Wisdom of Crowds. As explained by James Surowiecki in his book of the same name a large, well organized and disparate group can over the long run find better solutions to most issues than a small number of specialists. Democracy and Free Markets are those large groups. I wrote about this last year on my Radical Immigration Site in an essay titled: How Free People Vote. In the world today we have lots of opportunities to vote. We vote not just with ballots. We also vote with our dollars, our time and our feet. I have faith that collectively we will vote correctly and the progress toward freedom and away from poverty will continue.
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A comment from Joel G:
Since you introduced me to TWOC (The Wisdom of Crowds) I have used it as one of the main reasons to explain my irrepressible optimism about the future. It is not a faith on my part as I can point to the unrelenting movement of human history from less free and more impoverished to freer and less impoverished. As to where I place my faith, we covered that on the ride to Torrey Pines. Keep writing. You have a great blog.