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Stupid Is as Stupid Votes

Cartoon elephant and donkey. Each of them is wearing a dunce cap.

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In early 1788, Thomas Jefferson wrote that the new Constitution “has succeeded beyond what I apprehended it would have done.” He added, in a letter to the philosopher Richard Price, “wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.”

Things have gone “far wrong” in America. Can we “set them to rights?”

There have always been low-information voters. There have always been voters steered by misinformation. We are inflating their numbers.

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