I don’t understand why you think dumb people with no interest in politics will keep things more moderate rather than voting for whichever extremist aligns with their poorly thought out notions. Again, it doesn’t matter if smart people are the people we want most to vote if increased voting causes them to be more outnumbered by the people we want LEAST to vote. It’s also not just smart people I care about, it’s smart people who share my views. If the base rate for people to be similar to me is 1 in a thousand, and 200 out of a thousand are people I hate, and the rest are neutral, then increased percentage of people voting causes WAY more people to vote for things I hate than it does people to vote for things I like. Even if out of that 200 you claim 150 of them already vote so that doesn’t matter, I still think the remainder of lazy people with opinions I hate still hugely outnumber those of people whose opinions I like.
It’s also not just smart people I care about, it’s smart people who share my views.
What’s wrong with stupid people who share your views? In a binary election, they could easily form more than half the electorate.
I’m honestly undecided this time around. My gut tells me the increased entertainment value of candidate A over candidate B outweighs their minor policy differences...
I don’t understand why you think dumb people with no interest in politics will keep things more moderate rather than voting for whichever extremist aligns with their poorly thought out notions. Again, it doesn’t matter if smart people are the people we want most to vote if increased voting causes them to be more outnumbered by the people we want LEAST to vote. It’s also not just smart people I care about, it’s smart people who share my views. If the base rate for people to be similar to me is 1 in a thousand, and 200 out of a thousand are people I hate, and the rest are neutral, then increased percentage of people voting causes WAY more people to vote for things I hate than it does people to vote for things I like. Even if out of that 200 you claim 150 of them already vote so that doesn’t matter, I still think the remainder of lazy people with opinions I hate still hugely outnumber those of people whose opinions I like.
What’s wrong with stupid people who share your views? In a binary election, they could easily form more than half the electorate.
I’m honestly undecided this time around. My gut tells me the increased entertainment value of candidate A over candidate B outweighs their minor policy differences...