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The practical question is, do US lawmakers believe their voters are that dumb? (Mostly yes)

• dmvdoug 3y ago
  Nah, they really are this uninformed for the most part (there are notable exceptions of course). Story time! I went to law school in DC. One of my classmates worked as a staffer in the office of a prominent (leadership-level) congressperson (she was from his district). She had also done an internship with the UN. This congressperson had made public statements about defunding the UN and blah blah blah. He took her out to lunch one day and asked her to explain what the UN was and how it worked in the 30 minutes they had so he could field questions he was getting about his public statements.
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• bluGill 3y ago
  You don't have to fall back to that. It isn't possible to know all the issues facing national attention. Someone puts in a good/scary story about something and it is really hard to see why that story is wrong. Often the story isn't even wrong, it is just not the complete picture and the evils of what the story misses out on are even worse. There are a bit over 500 people with power in DC, they cannot possibly debate all the possible issues that come up. China learning from US contributions to Risc-v are not a good thing. However the obvious proposed solution wouldn't stop China from learning (it might delay them a few months, but they have plenty of smart engineers who can figure this out), and so will harm the US more.
• FpUser 3y ago
  1) - US lawmakers believe 2) - Mostly yes 3) - both Which one of 3?
• yieldcrv 3y ago
  The US has no direct referendums at the national level so it doesnt matter what voters think in the near term, or long term for that matter