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To: i-node who wrote (1379468)	11/9/2022 5:25:45 PM
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Trump Adviser Tells CNN’s Jim Acosta Trump Is Super-Pissed And ‘Sceaming at Everyone’ Over ‘Humiliating’ Midterms petulant child!

To: i-node who wrote (1379468)	11/9/2022 6:46:18 PM
From: Qone0	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572139

>> I fundamentally disagree with the notion that every person has a responsibility to vote. Only that small subset that is informed on the issues has the responsibility imo << You just disqualified yourself from voting. You obviously know very little about any issues that concern democracy. In his award-winning book, The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki explains that the many are smarter than the few—but only under the right conditions. Political scientist James Fishkin’s deliberative democracy experiments persuasively prove that ordinary citizens can deal with complex problems and make thoughtful decisions. “The public is very smart if you give it a chance…If people think their voice actually matters, they’ll do the hard work.” In 1906, British scientist Francis Galton discovered the “wisdom of crowds” at a country fair contest, in which individuals tried to guess the weight of an ox. No one’s guess, no matter how expert that person might be, was as accurate as the collective guess of the crowd. The average of the 787 guesses from the crowd proved to be perfect. The ox weighed exactly 1198 pounds. Galton’s remarkable experiment contradicted popular assumptions that human groups are like herds, easily influenced and likely to make rash, emotional decisions.

To: i-node who wrote (1379468)	11/9/2022 6:56:42 PM
From: golfer72	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572139

I wouldn't mind seeing a civics type test to prove you should be allowed to vote

To: i-node who wrote (1379468)	11/9/2022 7:29:32 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572139

Inode, While all may have the right, the nation is far better off if single issue voters and the ignorant who are coerced by leftist occupied storefronts in Philly to cast votes for the blue candidate of the day (who they probably can’t name), just stay home and watch Gillian’s island. A democracy cannot survive with that mentality. First of all, there are many leftists who believe the same way you do. Except that they think the people who should stay home are you underedumacated gun-toting flag-waving white "supremacists." Just remember, THEY are the ones with college degrees. They can prove it to you with their massive college debt bills. While you grunts are busy either working for Big Oil and Coal, or getting high on meth, they are busy either working for "sustainable" energy companies, or learning to code, or community-organizing. Their lives matter. Their votes matter. Yours do not. And second, I can point out an example of a society where the people became depoliticized and voluntarily gave up their rights and their power to a cabal of kleptocrats. That society is RuZZia. When you give up your civic duty to vote, when you give up your voice or tell others that they should give up theirs, you are not advocating for democracy. You are instead advocating for some sort of authoritarian republic. Tenchusatsu