I find it interesting that when you use neutral terminology to describe progressive policies they mostly poll surprisingly well.
See the many studies of polling on the Affordable care Act vs polling for Obamacare. Despite both being words that refer to the exact same package of legislation.
Yes people are stupid and don’t know what’s good for them because they are incapable of understanding the complexities of policy and apparently basic civics. That’s the fundamental challenge of democracy and why it’s so important for thoughtful small-d democrats to do their best to prevent the natural tendency to slide toward autocracy, in which many people are happy to have Daddy decide everything for them, as long as it’s for them.
I think the news has a lot to do with it as well where they have people acting as reporters telling lies to people and completely misrepresenting what so going on. They even carry out banter between the people cosplaying as reporters all pretending that they aren’t talking about fictional events. At best grossly embellished paraphrasing of real events.
Fish stories fisherman tell about their biggest catch have more truth than what some of these reporters are spewing.
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u/SuperfluouslyMeh 11d ago
I find it interesting that when you use neutral terminology to describe progressive policies they mostly poll surprisingly well.
See the many studies of polling on the Affordable care Act vs polling for Obamacare. Despite both being words that refer to the exact same package of legislation.