Of course the public often wants some unwise things. So laws and policies enacted in response to public demands would sometimes produce awful results. However, those results would be short lived. Ulysses S. Grant once said that the best way to get rid of defective laws was to enforce them. In a democracy, we would soon junk laws that didn't work.
Defective laws passed by judges are a lot harder to junk.
Those who claim to speak for God can't admit their mistakes. That was the lowest turnout in about seventy years. Yet it was only a little lower than it had been in most of those years. The average voter turnout, during the last two-thirds of the twentieth century, was well under 60 percent. It fell to about 50 percent from 1980 on.