The Reason Why Politics is Eternally Fucked: Populism

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The biggest reason why politics always was and will forever be on bullshit is that it is all about popular opinion and seeking to do the wishes of the masses. Not to say that politicians really do this, but campaign wise, that's what it's all about.

The biggest problem with this is:

1)The general public isn't informed or involved enough on the many of the subjects government has to handle in order to base decisions on their will.

2)This creates nothing but pandering to the ideas of the ignorant or the uninformed.

3)Whoever the public elects might have no idea how to create positive change, this person won off pandering, not by having the best solution.

4)Even if the person who is selected knows the best solution, they may have to go against popular opinion to do what's right, which will normally end in their demise.

I don't know the solution to the problem, but this is the problem I see with every presidential, government and local election.

 
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this fits more with local and state wide elections. presidential elections rely on electoral college. u see how bush lost the popular vote the first time around but won (or rather STOLE) the electoral college vote with that florida sheit
 

Q004

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this fits more with local and state wide elections. presidential elections rely on electoral college. u see how bush lost the popular vote the first time around but won (or rather STOLE) the electoral college vote with that florida sheit

The electoral college doesn't negate that it's still based on the popular vote of a district. Elections are popularity contests of the uninformed. How could you ever create a utopian society this way?

Not saying a dictatorship is the answer, but as long as the majority of voters are ignorant....and politics relies around pandering to the ignorant, we'll never have true change.
 
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