Should all people really be allowed to vote, no matter how fucking stupid they are?
I’m talking about the people who will drink bleach unless told not to in capital letters.
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TinyViolins · 31-35, M
I've heard it said that the single best argument against democracy was to talk politics with the average person for about 5 minutes. Experience has taught me that it takes way less time than that.
Still, we're all stakeholders in the countries we live in, and we all share the same fate with the decisions that get made.
The problem isn't necessarily who can and can't vote. I think the problem is that people far too often lack critical thinking skills and fill the gaps in their reasoning with more primal emotions like fear, anger, and tribalism.
What we need more than voting restrictions is to elevate the level of discourse and have a higher bar for educating the masses. More often than not people are relying on social media algorithms to spoon-feed them their news, or only using a handful of sources that have been compromised by an audience capture feedback loop.
There's an imbalance in our information diet. People are consuming junk in the form of falsehoods, or highly partisan reporting that only gives them one-sided views. Much like our own nutrition, it's important to get variety. People need to hear more from other points of view to get a much more balanced opinion, because otherwise all we're left with is unbalanced people
Still, we're all stakeholders in the countries we live in, and we all share the same fate with the decisions that get made.
The problem isn't necessarily who can and can't vote. I think the problem is that people far too often lack critical thinking skills and fill the gaps in their reasoning with more primal emotions like fear, anger, and tribalism.
What we need more than voting restrictions is to elevate the level of discourse and have a higher bar for educating the masses. More often than not people are relying on social media algorithms to spoon-feed them their news, or only using a handful of sources that have been compromised by an audience capture feedback loop.
There's an imbalance in our information diet. People are consuming junk in the form of falsehoods, or highly partisan reporting that only gives them one-sided views. Much like our own nutrition, it's important to get variety. People need to hear more from other points of view to get a much more balanced opinion, because otherwise all we're left with is unbalanced people
