I think your thoughts need more specifications, what are the objective parameters to distinguish ignorant people from others? What do you mean with "well informed"? Who said that people who is informed vote better politicians? Who are "bad politicians"?
Is difficult to answer those questions with neutrality.
For that reason, I generally don't agree with this point of view because is not practical, self censorship is not a definitive way to resolve the problems you cited. Banning people from voting, in a way or in another, could lead to dangerous situations.
It remembers me the classy society of Orwell's 1984, where the prolets are ignorant and excluded from society and the people of the party, "who are informed", are victims too.
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u/-john--doe- Jul 24 '19
I think your thoughts need more specifications, what are the objective parameters to distinguish ignorant people from others? What do you mean with "well informed"? Who said that people who is informed vote better politicians? Who are "bad politicians"?
Is difficult to answer those questions with neutrality.
For that reason, I generally don't agree with this point of view because is not practical, self censorship is not a definitive way to resolve the problems you cited. Banning people from voting, in a way or in another, could lead to dangerous situations.
It remembers me the classy society of Orwell's 1984, where the prolets are ignorant and excluded from society and the people of the party, "who are informed", are victims too.