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> The biggest issue in democracy is that the majority of people vote irrationally. That is to say, they don't vote in a manner consistent with how you perceive
by JackFr 7y ago
> The biggest issue in democracy is that the majority of people vote irrationally.
That is to say, they don't vote in a manner consistent with how you perceive their interests.
- pier25 7y agoWhat you're saying is that people voting for the same party for 30 years, regardless of the political program, are satisfying their interests?
- shadowgovt 7y agoI believe the term, when used in the literature, is more to mean "they don't vote in a manner consistent with how a dispassionate observer with access to global information state perceives the path to achieving their interests." There's quite a lot of literature on the topic, and it's quite fascinating. For example, higher education has a tendency to change people's answers to a variety of survey questions (summary of this and other phenomena in the book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter).
- bduerst 7y agoVoting irrationally is sequitur from "having interests", just not rational self-interests. Having interests is not mutually exclusive to acting irrationally.