Politics is a niche hobby, not unlike mountain biking or playing the oboe
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But expressing that opinion doesn't come for free, so only two types of people do it: the most dedicated, and the people who are at least wealthy enough that they have income to spend on it.
There's the issue-based activists. These people get into politics because they care deeply about an issue.
Then, more rarely, there's the horse-race analysts. These are in it because the numbers games are fun.
People who are into politics but not due to wealth tend to be mostly issue activists. Some of those issue activists are also horse-race analysts, but a good number of them don't like the horse-race stuff, usually because they perceive it as diluting the cause they're championing.
Then you get a few people like me, who are much more attached to the horse-race analysis than the issue activism. I do issue activism...but only to a much lesser extent than the usual issue activist does.
(By "horse-race" I mean looking at the numbers, like poll numbers, who's who, topline results, incumbents and challengers and primaries and dark horses, fundraising figures, focus lists from the various party campaigns, who's firing positive or negative ads at whom, candidate spending vs. third-party spending, etc..)
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I feel that democracy's inherently flawed because, generally, humans don't know what's best for them. Even if it was possible for us to all be fully informed about the issues (and, considering that each news station has a different set of info, there's really no such thing as being fully informed), our emotions would probably screw us up regardless.
I've always been in favor of a form of technocracy, myself.
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Basically, I'd like laws to be based on what's needed and necessary instead of what's requested by the fallible populace.
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Man, I don't like using soft sciences as a bad thing, but sociological ideas and economic ideas would need to go through more checks before touching policy.
this completely ignores the fact that even the most hardnosed scientists are people with biases and opinions too.
you'd end up with a scientist-run version of the Republic of Venice.
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I'm still putting it down as "Favorite Sci-fi Utopia".
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OK.
Well, you've come up with a perfect hypothetical solution, I'll give you that.
Can some of the council members be spherical cows in vacuums?
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Past Tre had his moments of stupidity, but I'll give him credit for paying no mind to the right things
Confused the Post with the Times here for some reason, the former being a perfectly fine paper of record with the occasional wack article and an excellent politics blog and the latter being the mouthpiece of the Unification Church. Very unfortunate.
Also:
Somehow I was even worse three years ago. If barely.
I can do it more if you'd like~