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It's impossible for the smartest voter to identify what is and isn't a credible source when posted to Facebook, but average voters possess the ability to listen
by TallGuyShort 7y ago
It's impossible for the smartest voter to identify what is and isn't a credible source when posted to Facebook, but average voters possess the ability to listen to arguments about foreign policy and decide who should control the big red nuke button? Or listen to arguments about economics and decide who should control the big money printer? lol ok.
- ben_w 7y agoMy apologies for being unclear. I’m saying gin=gout. No matter how smart you are, if you see only one side you can’t possibly tell if it’s a good argument as you have nothing to compare it against. Following on from that, thanks to all our human cognitive biases and limitations, the information doesn’t even need to be totally one sided. 20th century democracy worked acceptably well because vested interests controlling newspapers etc. couldn’t dominate every aspect of political discourse everywhere all the time — although there are a few interesting examples of them dominating specific demographics, and as a result a whole bunch of people have been needlessly demonised, which is literally how I know this is a problem that can happen.