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In my experience, most people simply vote for the opinion shouted loudest and the one their relatives/friends vote. Only a very few investigates the topic indep

by kbart 11y ago

In my experience, most people simply vote for the opinion shouted loudest and the one their relatives/friends vote. Only a very few investigates the topic independently, but their votes are lost in the noise. I would not trust decisions, that require specific knowledge and that can't be explained in layman terms, to the masses.

wsc981 11y ago
In my experience, most people simply vote for the opinion shouted loudest and the one their relatives/friends vote. Only a very few investigates the topic independently, but their votes are lost in the noise. I would not trust decisions, that require specific knowledge and that can't be explained in layman terms, to the masses. Could you provide some examples? --- Personally I don't trust politicians as much anymore these days to make choices in the benefit of the people. Most often the politicians' votes seem more aligned with business interests compared to the people interests, especially in large powerful constructs like the EU. I've also seen politicians make plenty bad choices in my country. My opinion is that we should get more referenda in the future. The innovation of internet makes it possible to do this very cheap.
- kbart 11y ago
  I agree that politicians make some terrible and downright malicious decisions (namely TTIP) and citizens should have more power (stop NSA, anyone?), but some decisions are best left to the specialists. Utopian government should be some kind of a mix between democracy and technocracy imho. An anecdote to answer your question: in Lithuania (where I live), few elections ago, the most vote received a party consisting of the local TV and pop stars that, no need to say, had absolutely no clue about politics. Of course, they didn't last long and only caused few months of turmoil.

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In my experience, most people simply vote for the opinion shouted loudest and the one their relatives/friends vote. Only a very few investigates the topic indep

by kbart 11y ago

wsc981 11y ago
In my experience, most people simply vote for the opinion shouted loudest and the one their relatives/friends vote. Only a very few investigates the topic independently, but their votes are lost in the noise. I would not trust decisions, that require specific knowledge and that can't be explained in layman terms, to the masses. Could you provide some examples? --- Personally I don't trust politicians as much anymore these days to make choices in the benefit of the people. Most often the politicians' votes seem more aligned with business interests compared to the people interests, especially in large powerful constructs like the EU. I've also seen politicians make plenty bad choices in my country. My opinion is that we should get more referenda in the future. The innovation of internet makes it possible to do this very cheap.
- kbart 11y ago
  I agree that politicians make some terrible and downright malicious decisions (namely TTIP) and citizens should have more power (stop NSA, anyone?), but some decisions are best left to the specialists. Utopian government should be some kind of a mix between democracy and technocracy imho. An anecdote to answer your question: in Lithuania (where I live), few elections ago, the most vote received a party consisting of the local TV and pop stars that, no need to say, had absolutely no clue about politics. Of course, they didn't last long and only caused few months of turmoil.