• stringere@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    if they got smarter we might actually be doing ok.

    Or we could remove the financial incentives in our political system. That’d be a good start and a lot more likely to happen than making people smarter. Let’s not try to change people, let’s instead stop monied interests’ ability to mass manipulate people with fear into voting against their own interests.

    • Soup@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Well that’s the thing, the base would be smart enough to elect those who would actually want to do those things instead of the current gaggle of goons.