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[–]Antarchomachus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah you are 100% correct, and it is frustrating. I am attempting to have empathy for these people - Americans are bombarded with a huge amount of propaganda and misinformation, so I'm not totally surprised that people get their facts messed up. At the same time, some of us have managed to untangle some of this, and the people lacking critical thinking probably are doing enormous harm to us with their ignorance.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Most people are simply too dumb and uncritical to have any valid epistemic reasons for holding opinions on most things, they should just shut up. But Dumbocracy works by politicizing the least and the dumbest to vote based on their tribal identity and feelings, and ends up corrupting all of social discourse in the process. Most people have zero epistemic right to political, economic or social opinions, they know nothing and are too stupid, bigoted and lazy to learn when they should. Democracy is cultural cancer.

[–]Antarchomachus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sorry to double respond here, wanted to ask you a question.

Do you not share my concerns about the elites? Do you have some plan to determine who is worthy of representation? How would we do that?

You seem like a thoughtful and rational person, and I am genuinely curious. I share your views on the masses but have some concerns, and am curious to see if I am missing something here, or if you have some take on this I haven't thought of

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Don't worry about it, I often have ten thoughts on short order and have a whole list of sperg comments one after the other. I am elated to talk to someone on here who isn't obsessed with social signaling and repeating muhNAP to every question. Normie libertarians are just as tedious as socialists sometimes.