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In any democracy, most people aren't ever going to be "well-informed" about public issues.This isn't a theoretical discussion.
The world is being lied to by the MAGA leadership and a handful of right wing media owners. The rate and pervasiveness of those lies, thanks to electronic media, is unprecedented. Algorithms and microtargetting have made lying supremely effective.
It costs resources to be well-informed about politics, but the impact of a marginal voter on the outcome of political processes is trivial. It costs resources to attend stock car races, real fighting and fake WWE fights, and Trump rallies, watch Fox, listen to Limbaugh.
They rely on heuristics to make their choices. That's always been the case, but pervasive electronic media has warped the balance on which heuristics form. In the US we can thank the elimination of Fairness in broadcasting and now a corrupt SCOTUS for facillitating even more lying in broadcasting that will further warp the heuristic process.
The days of uninformed appalchian hicks walking acrost ta the next hill ta hog-yell to let loretty know her Pa died are done and gone. They have TV and Fox is on. They go to mega churches and get politicized preaching.
Heck, even the few remaining aboriginals in the Amazon basin have satellite TV in their thatched villages.
They're being lied to non-stop by the likes of Trump/Fox/MAGA (and now Kari Lake is gonna be the Voice of America???LOeffingL)
Again, the POINT is 'HEALTHY DEMOCRACY'. SUBJECTING THE POPULATION TO INCESSANT LYING AIN'T HEALTHY.
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-heuristic-2...
