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And you thought the tea party was bad? This is the next generation of voters
- happy4crazy 15y agoI'm not really sure what to make of reports like this. One the one hand, it does seem pretty terrifying. But on the other, I feel like the fact that the governing apparatus of the US has more-or-less worked for several hundred years can't have been predicated on a hyper-educated electorate. It reminds me of a quote at the beginning of Types and Programming Languages, attributed to Tom Melham: "Formal methods will never have a significant impact until they can be used by people that don't understand them." I would think systems of government would be similar.
- kunle 15y agoThe governing apparatus of the US is less than 300 years old non? A couple things are also different this time - at no time in world history has american reach/impact been so great, and the US is pretty much facing a one of a kind set of challenges with the combination of near fiscal ruin, with being the world's reserve currency (just to name one). The quality of education that voters have might be the same as it has been in the past, but the consequences of poor electoral choices is most definitely greater.
- jokermatt999 15y agoThis shouldn't be on Hacker News. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon Also, please submit things by their original title unless the original title isn't descriptive. You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it. I'm not saying this to be a jerk or to call you out, but because you appear to be somewhat new here.
- kunle 15y agoNoted - hadnt seen the submission guidelines before and I appreciate it.