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It would require people willing to be single-issue voters, the way many are on abortion or firearms. Would anyone here switch party votes to a candidate who si
by bpodgursky 5y ago
It would require people willing to be single-issue voters, the way many are on abortion or firearms.
Would anyone here switch party votes to a candidate who sided their way on tech privacy — even if they disagreed on other core principles like abortion, gun rights, religion in schools, etc?
Maybe a few, but I'm not convinced many.
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- vorpalhex 5y agoTie it to existing wedge issues. "Do you want Facebook knowing every time you buy a gun/get an abortion?"
- spaetzleesser 5y agoI wouldn’t. That’s the sad thing in the US with its entrenched two party system. You have to choose between two unlikeable options. I usually vote Green but it’s sad that these votes are “lost”.
- ryeights 5y agoThe UK, with its n-party system, still manages to pass some pretty zany anti-civil-rights legislation…
- strulovich 5y agoThose single issue voters are the not present in many other countries besides the US. This might show that the right arguments and lobbying can turn what is not a big political debate into a wedge over time.
- smt88 5y ago> the right arguments and lobbying Firearms and abortion became The Issue for so many single-issue voters because of well-funded, relentless fear-mongering. You can do the same thing with tech privacy, but you're going to have to "play dirty" to accomplish the same thing, and it's going to take decades. It's also important to note that abortion successfully tied itself into religion, which is not something you're going to be able to do with cryptography.
- raziel2p 5y agothey absolutely are - you'll find plenty of voters in Europe who care about nothing other than immigration, for example.
- strulovich 5y agoI’m not saying there’s no single issue voters, just that the single issues are not universal and depend on culture and geography.