"...potentially an infinite number of people."

and, sadly, no particular control on the education, sanity or habits of all those people.
Since this thread is ostensibly about voting, my math says that the more people you have, the greater the chance of "old wisdom that makes no damned sense" getting embedded in the political process.
It seems to me that politics is becoming more & more a matter of how to get votes from the careless, ignorant and superstitious ....and those who are single issue voters... than of appeal to the folks who read, study and care.