*> Voters do not have much incentive to make informed votes since the expected impact of their vote is very small. True. This is called learned helplessness. B

*> Voters do not have much incentive to make informed votes since the expected impact of their vote is very small. True. This is called learned helplessness. But people can also learn autonomy, emancipation instead, given the possibility to make an impact. I'm not pretending that people are "astute and informed", they aren't; but they're definitely able to become so.