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For election to work you would have to read [all of] the [not legally binding] election programs, ponder the offerings and make up your own mind. You won't fin
by econ 1y ago
For election to work you would have to read [all of] the [not legally binding] election programs, ponder the offerings and make up your own mind.
You won't find a single person who does this.
Apparently everyone votes by a different mechanism. One that involves a lot of money.
Even if everyone was well informed and able to objectively make their own choices that are truly their own. You don't actually have to do anything you wrote in your election program.
- threatofrain 1y agoWe don't become legal experts to run a business, we hire lawyers. We don’t become doctors to aid in our own health either. So too should people find ways to delegate and evaluate economic and policy analysis.
- econ 1y agoThe terrifying reality is that there is no one to delegate to. If we would magically spawn the theoretically ideal candidate who plans to do everything exactly the way you want it done then there is zero chance you will vote for them. This goes for all voters. Exactly 100% of them without rounding anything. https://www.fec.gov/data/candidates/president/?election_year=2024&cycle=2024&election_full=true https://www.fec.gov/data/candidates/president/?election_year... You can't argue you don't need to know any of them because they aren't popular enough. Democracy badly needs a better formula for discovery or some other means to add signal to the noise like a license to drive the country or some financial reward to get a diploma. Maybe we could train an LLM to interview the voter.