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You can't 'protect' democracy by dismissing the electorate as mindless idiots. Either you take the position adults can make up their own minds or you dismantle
by throw2016 9y ago
You can't 'protect' democracy by dismissing the electorate as mindless idiots.
Either you take the position adults can make up their own minds or you dismantle democracy and media as voters are easily influenced and cannot be trusted. There is no literate argument to be found here.
This paranoia is now reaching hysteria, lies are repeated without any sort of evidence as fact and all sorts of dubious agendas are being played out under pretense. No one talking about this will admit they are personally influenced but are happy to patronize everyone else.
- FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago>Either you take the position adults can make up their own minds or you dismantle democracy and media as voters are easily influenced and cannot be trusted. Reducing the solution set to a binary is emblematic of the problems of the US political system. Another possible solution is to increase awareness of cognitive biases in decision making and perhaps improving our educational system by elevating the importance of critical analysis. However, I steer towards the latter of your proposed solutions. That such a large % of the voting public gets its news from facebook is depressing.