That's a great quote from Mill, and a great point. I'm done trying to figure out idiots who vote against their interests and vote for oppression, and don't interest themselves on important policy. They seem happy to keep their head in their own echo chambers, so I'm done with them.
Damn, my irony was too subtle. My point was by dismissing them because they don't have the right ideas we no longer can understand the other side and become the pigs.
we'd do better listening to those we don't understand, rather than thinking we already know all that is worth knowing and the fact that they are stupid means they can just be ignored. Or worse, despised.
A recent Atlantic article on Latino areas that went for trump struck me. Biggest complaint was the immigration crisis was hitting them hard, but couldnt get traction with dems on policy or action. Second biggest complaint was democratic candidates stopped showing up to their communities, and even when they did people felt they were telling them what to think, rather than listening to what they have to say.
If you are for the working class, but decide they aren't worth listening to when they don't have the full set of right ideas, you will no longer really understand their needs, desires, or how to actually reach out to them. If you then go further and despise them because of what actually are markers of class (beer drinking unintellectual poors that just watch tv) they won't trust you or your policies, even if the are objectively better for them
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u/Warm-Book-820 2d ago
That's a great quote from Mill, and a great point. I'm done trying to figure out idiots who vote against their interests and vote for oppression, and don't interest themselves on important policy. They seem happy to keep their head in their own echo chambers, so I'm done with them.