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oxdev.base.eth 🎩🔵Ⓜ️
@ayojoseph
I've been thinking a lot about a conversation I had here, when I think @javabu.eth mentioned the majority of the masses that voted in last election don't really understand the policies they're voting for. Looking back to the last UK election, the majority of the populace voted for labour and had discussion few of my colleagues in the UK, they all seem convinced to the extent I became convinced as well, but few months down the line they lost conviction and I noticed the way they support labour reduced bit by bit, lately I noticed they kind of ignore most news about labour failures and they just move on from this, it's intriguing that after 6months they move and but those that voted against the party will have to bear the consequences till next election. Bringing this analogy to the America space, the majority clearly voted for Trump even tho I now agree with @javabu.eth that majority of the populace don't even understand some of the policies they voted for.
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thoughtcrimeboss
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The informed minority is probably even much smaller than you think it is, maybe you are now on the verge of realizing why democracy doesn't work. Even the fucking politicians aren't very informed about some of the policies they are enacting, and they certainly don't consider long term consequences of anything further out than the next election. Representative democracy is supposed to work because even if the voter has no idea what is going on, he can delegate the decision making to an informed and moral representative. This doesn't work if the representatives are uniformed themselves, not to mention corrupt and power hungry.
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