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it’s a litmus test on their voting base just to make sure desantis voters care more about desantis and ‘owning the libs’ than they care about policy or ideology
by matthewaveryusa 4y ago
it’s a litmus test on their voting base just to make sure desantis voters care more about desantis and ‘owning the libs’ than they care about policy or ideology.
It really is fascinating to see ideology decoupling from voting. The best I can come up with is voting for political aesthetics.
I wonder if this was always the case but we were always too embarrassed to admit it because political elites kept the ideology and aesthetic inline. Reagan was an actor after all
- yamtaddle 4y agoGeneral voting for President has always been an absurd idea. It's impossible for most people to make an informed choice on who's best for such a role—it is guaranteed to turn into a propaganda and showmanship contest. That's why we have the electoral college. Unfortunately, that was poorly-designed and fell to games-playing pretty much immediately, so never actually worked the way it was supposed to, and now we're stuck with the downsides of that and the downsides of a kind of weird not-quite popular election for the position, without the benefits of either.
- badwolf 4y ago> It really is fascinating to see As someone in a minority group that Desantis is specifically going after, I don't really find it very fascinating, more terrifying.
- x86_64Ubuntu 4y agoWhat's a thought experiment in a philosophy class for some has horrible real world ramifications for the rest of us.