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Citizens don't have to become policy wonks in order for them to care about an issue and vote that way. Ideally, we wouldn't also have quasi-deniers and what-abouters defying the overwhelming bulk of climate scientists. Their ignorance is a lot more dangerous.
Why have democracy at all if citizens just defer to 'experts' & 'journalists'?
You're exaggerating. The citizenry is - and can - be informed at different levels of detail and that can be enough to have a functional democracy. Has it ever been otherwise? Or would you have people take tests before they can vote?
We could, if we wanted, transfer to a "deliberative democracy" where citizens are informed before votes. But hmmm... I wonder which side of the aisle would prevent this?
Democracy was not intended to be "direct" but representational. So indeed, the voters determine the direction, but policy implementation is done by experts. If the Corona virus showed us one thing, it is that.
That is clearly a false dichotomy. We can't learn everything so paying attention to experts is second best, but we should be involved if we can.
Projection of the chattering class. (I read deeply & broadly. So should everyone else if you want to hold an opinion.) Not everyone's got time for that. But yes, if you can, do your due diligence, especially if you're truly passionate abt an issue & squawking a lot
Climate science denialists can't seem to keep a coherent argument going for very long as evidenced by primal polly's contrasting statements on following expert advicehttps://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1256713214722637824?s=19 …
If for example the said experts represent the citizens, then it can be a representative democracy. You cannot expect all citizens to be literate in all the policies of the world like a focused hive mind.
What’s the point of capitalism if some consumers haven’t fully researched the products they buy?
Bandwidth.
Because not every citizen can be perfectly informed on every issue down to a scientific level? Having researchers go deep into specific issues allowing reps to have broader knowledge is pretty good imo
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