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So you are saying that the political views of populations are largely stable. Sure. But what does it have to with either democracy or the Central Limit Theorem?
Not just stable. Moderate, rarely obsessed with single issues, and in retrospect they're usually pretty good at making wise decisions on the broad strokes(even if they're bad at micropolicy - which makes sense, because so few people care about it). It's for the same reasons as the CLT, which is why I named it - the distinguishing characteristics and individual madnesses of voters cancel each other out, and you're left with a signal whose characteristics are defined by broad statistical characteristics, and not the quirks of a small group.