TheEmpireStrikesDak

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  • Brexit showed us what happens when people who don’t know how things work vote. I don’t believe in mandatory voting. People who don’t know or care what they’re voting for isn’t a good thing, I think. Before any talk of mandatory voting, it should be a mandatory part of the secondary school curriculum teaching kids how parliament and elections work.

    I had a colleague, who when told she should have voted in the GE, said, “Never mind, I’ll vote next year.”

    I mean, this was back in the early 2010s. Nowadays that argument holds more water, I suppose.










  • Here’s a really good video by Barry’s Economics on the topic:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n_lgy337KiA

    One of the most powerful beliefs in modern politics isn’t a policy. It’s the belief that nothing can change.

    You hear it everywhere and I feel it too. Most of us do.

    But the strange thing is that when researchers study how change actually happens, they keep finding the opposite. Social change rarely arrives because everybody suddenly agrees. It often begins with surprisingly small groups of people connected in the right ways, reaching a tipping point that makes what seemed impossible suddenly feel inevitable.