Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?

• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why you change my words?

  Anyway, they think they know, but they don’t. They don’t know better than anyone else, due the nature of politics their opinion on matters should not have any more weight than the common folk, that’s why we chose democracy as a form of government anyway. If we do not believe in the fact that everyone opinion matter the samy I don’t know why would we pretend it does, let’s stablish an aristocracy and be done with it.

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Everyone’s opinions don’t matter the same. If I take the time and energy to understand a topic, my opinion has more weight than Joe Schmo who looked it up on Facebook. As Isaac Asimov said:

    Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

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    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We are not talking about science, we are talking about politics.

      In science you can study gravity and then your opinion on how gravity works os more important than the opinion of someone who hasn’t study gravity.

      But we are talking about politics, politics is about what people want with their lives. And no matter what have you studied or how much have you studied. The biggest authority on someone’s life it’s always going to be that one person.

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      • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s true that not every question in politics has an absolute, factual answer. But some do, and there’s a minimum standard of discussion below which people are just working with misinformation and will not be correct regardless of their goals.

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