• koper@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    Ah yes, the unenlightened peasants cannot be trusted to form their own opinions. In fact, why let them vote at all?

    • GoodEye8@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      So what’s the alternative? Deliberately create a classist structure where you have a voting class and non-voting class of citizens? Seems like a worse idea than the current one. Democracy is not perfect, but it’s the best we have.

      Also worth mentioning that if your own political party decides to feed people populist shit then that’s the country shooting themselves in the foot. When a foreign entity does the same things that’s no longer shooting yourself in the foot, that’s someone wanting you to shoot you in the foot.

    • baru@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      That wasn’t said. Pretending a crazy summary was said is a common fallacy.