4 ms·
A lot to unpack here. > The common man isn't expected to understand tariffs, international banking, military theory, computer engineering, social justice issue
by cvlasdkv 6y ago
A lot to unpack here.
> The common man isn't expected to understand tariffs, international banking, military theory, computer engineering, social justice issues, and food scarcity.
What better use is there of the common man's time than understanding societal issues like justice and scarcity? Are you describing how the world is or claiming how it should be? If you do not understand justice, scarcity, etc. how can you claim to elect someone who reflects your views--ignoring that a lot of politics is lesser evil voting?
An uneducated populace voting is a worst-case scenario for a representative democracy.
- michaelcampbell 6y ago> > The common man isn't expected to understand tariffs, international banking, military theory, computer engineering, social justice issues, and food scarcity. > What better use is there of the common man's time than understanding societal issues like justice and scarcity? Both of those can be true.
- cvlasdkv 6y agoHence my question of whether the OP is prescriptive or descriptive.
- kybernetikos 6y ago> An uneducated populace voting is a worst-case scenario for a representative democracy. I'd probably say that the worst-case scenario is a populace that doesn't care whether their representative is educated on the issues. There are many things that I consider myself uneducated in, but as long as my representative has similar values, is not corrupt, is competent and finds and listens to experts in the relevant fields, then I don't necessarily consider that to be a problem. We should be electing people we trust to care about the detail of stuff that doesn't interest normal humans, not people we'd like to have a beer with.