Note 73

No social systems are perfect. Therefore it is incumbent on good leadership to identify and understand the blind spots of any system and to provide discretionary measures to moderate its excesses. Here, ideological blinders are dangerous. Ideology is the business of the intellectual and institutional design, and good sense the business of the agent. By placing ideology over judgement through partisan politics, democracy trades off good judgement and representativeness of values. The severity of this tradeoff is path-dependent, and relies heavily on generations of responsible stewardship to preserve.