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Polls show that year after year influence of money in politics and corruption is one of the causes that unite people. Ignorance, emotion, identity politics, an
by nabla9 2y ago
Polls show that year after year influence of money in politics and corruption is one of the causes that unite people.
Ignorance, emotion, identity politics, and good showmanship are more than enough to explain voter irrationality.
- bediger4000 2y agoI fill out as many polls as I can. I lie on them. Polling no longer yields accurate information.
- cherry_tree 2y agoWhy?
- bediger4000 2y agoGood question. I find many, if not most, polls to be constructed in bad faith, designed to get the answers they want, or at least to avoid answers they don't want. The other proportion of polls is poorly constructed, full of assumptions about those polled, or what answers are even possible. Polls also reduce the nuance of situations vastly. I'm frustrated by polls, in short.
- zen928 2y agoYou're not wrong that intentional bad actors can spoil institutions, I don't see the institution as the problem there though