Comment on The National Parks Were Reportedly Told to Stay Silent on DeathsparentComments−specialist2moI've been binging Sarah Longwell's (of The Bulwark) Focus Group episodes. She shares quotes from participants. Typical average low information, low engagement voters.So depressing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA_iob2pnFk&list=PLJNKzTkCZE...I've long grudgingly accepted premise of Democracy for Realists. Yet my expectations remained stubbornly, inappropriately too optimistic.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_theory_of_democracyhttps://archive.org/details/democracyforreal0000ache--The silver lining may be that "hopelessly confused voters" is better than hyperpartisanship. Longwell uses the term "heterodoxy".
Comments
I've been binging Sarah Longwell's (of The Bulwark) Focus Group episodes. She shares quotes from participants. Typical average low information, low engagement voters.
So depressing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA_iob2pnFk&list=PLJNKzTkCZE...
I've long grudgingly accepted premise of Democracy for Realists. Yet my expectations remained stubbornly, inappropriately too optimistic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_theory_of_democracy
https://archive.org/details/democracyforreal0000ache
--
The silver lining may be that "hopelessly confused voters" is better than hyperpartisanship. Longwell uses the term "heterodoxy".