One is Mr. Smith and the other is Mr. Cook. Mr.Smith is from the Blue mainstream party that you prefer and that party has mostly the right positions in their party program. But you also know that Mr. Smith has a low IQ, is corrupt and generally doesn’t care about the promises he made last month.
On the other hand Mr.Cook is from the Green mainstream party that you don’t like. On the other hand you know that Mr. Cook has a high IQ, is incorruptible, values holding his promises and generally does what he thinks is in the best interest of the country.
And yet not smart enough to realize that the Green party’s policies aren’t in the best interest of the country.
You have probably spend less time investigating the issue in detail and if you would be an average voter and not average LW user you would also be less smart than the politician.
That means you are likely mindkilled when you have a high confidence that your judgement of what’s best for the country highly correlates with what’s best for the country.
Yes, but smart well meaning politicians are more likely to implement good policies than politicians who aren’t. There way to much energy invested in fighting blue vs. green and this means that less attention is payed on optimizing for smart well meaning politicians.
Of course that’s very much in the interest of people who want to corrupt politicians. Distract the population with fighting about issues where both sides have valid arguments and then get politicians to enact policies that are beneficial for the lobbyists but which aren’t in the spotlight of the general discourse for which there aren’t good arguments.
And yet not smart enough to realize that the Green party’s policies aren’t in the best interest of the country.
You have probably spend less time investigating the issue in detail and if you would be an average voter and not average LW user you would also be less smart than the politician. That means you are likely mindkilled when you have a high confidence that your judgement of what’s best for the country highly correlates with what’s best for the country.
It’s not like smart well meaning politicians have never implemented policies that proved disastrous.
Yes, but smart well meaning politicians are more likely to implement good policies than politicians who aren’t. There way to much energy invested in fighting blue vs. green and this means that less attention is payed on optimizing for smart well meaning politicians.
Of course that’s very much in the interest of people who want to corrupt politicians. Distract the population with fighting about issues where both sides have valid arguments and then get politicians to enact policies that are beneficial for the lobbyists but which aren’t in the spotlight of the general discourse for which there aren’t good arguments.