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  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    Okay so i haven’t read against democracy but it seems to take the socrates position. Instead of limiting votes to only the highly educated (which i take as an issue because this disadvantages the poor significantly due to higher education costing lots of money) why not just build a society in which everyone is educated enough to meet the standard for an informed voting population?

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      1 hour ago

      Firstly, I don’t agree with anyone in this chain, but man… there are just some people who damn near physically incapable of learning.

      There’s also the simple fact that a huge portion of the population just don’t care about politics or government. If “didn’t vote” was an option for eligible voters, it would have won every election in US history.