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@CuriousMagpie@mastodon.social Well, I do think we need to separate the ideas of reflecting the preferences of the population from weather. Those preferences are actually good or bad or rooted in fact.
Like it's entirely democratic to vote to spend money appeasing the flying spaghetti monster if a large portion of the population honestly believe in FSM. That doesn't mean that portion of the population is educated well, but it's still democracy at work to come to that conclusion.
But yes, I absolutely emphatically say that the information issue is a core problem that outweighs so many other things people worry about.
Like it doesn't matter how districts are gerrymandered if all of the people in the districts don't know what's happening anyway.
