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The history of electoralism (lemmy.ml)
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[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

Democracy has as a necessary precondition that people are intelligent enough to differentiate good candidates from bad candidates.

This is just fundamentally impossible, 99.9% of people only relation to candidates is what they see in social media or other ads. People really have no idea who they're choosing and its entirely a vibes based decision, i.e. candidate A speaks elocuently, candidate B is charming, etc...