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Will they remember this the next time he's up for reelection?
Voters have a depressingly short memory.
or not vote at all
The number of people who vote by the top name is higher than you expect.
Last name start with a B and your opponent's last is a T.... you're getting a head start just because of that alone.
That's why democracy is also known as being ruled by the hordes of idiots. It's amazing when people are well informed on what they are voting on, the problem is that's never happened in mass and never will. People will vote based on their feelings or just straight up not at all.
I'm imagining the most wealthy (who think they know what's best for the world, like P.T.) would say something eerily similar to what you are saying.
The very rich have access to all of the information. One can't expect people who face significant barriers to higher education (and other means of informing themselves) to be on the level of experts, the educated and informed, or the very rich.
Why are people against experts, the educated, and the informed?
Partisan news media seems like the likely culprit. A broken political system posing as democracy could be another factor to consider. Opaque algorithms that put people into information bubbles (with the intention to make them addicted and as uninformed/reactionary as possible) are definitely a major factor.
I’m just thinking how for most of history, humanity put these people on a pedestal and let them get away with a lot (through religion, in most cases I think).
I think your culprits are accurate.
https://youtu.be/QFgcqB8-AxE
Fuck elections, these types of people require more immediate consequences.