Tyranny of the uninformed? No, you can’t have democracy when the voters are uninformed. This has been a decades long attack on democracy via our education system by bad actors within our own governments, States and Federal. As always, The Hill has missed the mark completely and decides to double down on the blame game. Sanders was right, even if Kamala did have a plan for many things and Trump obviously has none. Its been obvious for a while now that the common people are upset with the status quo. The uneducated have been primed to elect a dictator purposefully.
It’s even worse than being uninformed, it’s being purposely misinformed, by politicians who have trained large parts of the public to ignore facts and listen to them instead. I need to go re-read 1984 while I still can.
“But I didn’t know about that!”
Re: Virtually any topic which has multiple news sources explaining it in their texts, from myself.
I know a very intelligent, analytical, freedom loving Republican. With every conversation, I’m more shocked he’s not a hard-lined Democrat. He’s not into the conspiracies or anything. It’s just that everything is a bit skewed.
“I don’t think he’s saying that.”
“Most Democrats agree.”
“I just assume most politicians are like that.”
“I support that, but I think states should be deciding that.”
I’m like he is saying that, the Dems on Fox agree, assuming just gives a pass to offenders, and “state rights” has always just been an excuse to oppress without federal protections.
He also listens to right-wing people he disagrees with because sometimes they make a good point. In other words, he knows they’re being dishonest, but sometimes he can rationalize what they say. It’s willful ignorance.
Yeah I’ve met several people like this. I’ve yet to figure a good general understanding of why this happens, but I think as a first step, people need to have much more humility about their own intelligence. No one is immune to the standard cognitive biases
By politicians who have trained large parts of the public to ignore facts and listen to them instead
I would argue that particular surrogacy was handled by religion in the US, especially fundamentalist evangelicalism.
For religions of this kind, belief without evidence, and especially contrary to evidence, is virtuous, the purest form of devotion — blessed is he who believes without seeing — and it’s not a big leap from spiritual authority to political.
Politicians didn’t have to do any training, unfortunately. We trained ourselves.
Edit: made exception for mindfulness religions, my apologies
We are talking about errors of perception measured by orders of magnitude.
There’s no easy fix for this
You can start by being honest and transparent.
This is only a misinformation problem because there is a trust problem.
There is only a trust problem because of a long history of repeatedly breaking that trust.
The absolutely last thing you want is for regulation to limit speech of the influencers. You want to give them no reason to think there is foul play. You have to fight it with the truth.
Remove corporations’ and political parties’ right to privacy. Privacy is for humans. Everything else goes on a public ledger.
Make all scientific publications public and free forever. Science should not be paywalled.
Always mark (not remove) misinformation and enforce a notification system on all platforms to users who saw content that later turned out to be misinformation. Always provide evidence for why it was misinformation. Make reading the misinformation notifications mandatory to keep your social media account.
This was a clear choice between a candidate who pledged to defend America’s founding values, democracy and the rule of law
lol whatever libs. Even if this were true, the “rule of law” and “america’s founding (slaver) values” are both trash.
This kind of delusional condescension is a primary reason why libs were blown out.
Far too many are ignorant, even intentionally so, rather than uninformed.
you are obviously ignorant about the meaning of the word ignorant, you should check it out 😆
