Adam Gurri

And then a demagogue comes along and mobilizes them.

And all of a sudden, I mean, that's basically what happened with Trump in a lot of ways.

He mobilized a lot of non-voters.

And that's a dangerous situation.

Essentially, the high-level way of putting that is,

disengaged non-voters are a bomb waiting to go off for a society.

And, and so, you know, mandatory voting is just a phrase.

What it actually means in practice is usually either you pay people for showing up or you tax them for not, not going, which, you know, from a fiscal perspective is pretty equivalent.

Maybe psychologically people prefer the idea of I can turn down getting the money.

That's fine.

Then politically do that.

But anyway, like,

Actually, like having a day off on election days, paying people some nominal amount that for someone who's poor might actually mean a lot to go to the polls, and just generally making it easier and doing things to positively encourage going to the polls, I'm 100% for now.

I mean, after looking at how things have played out in my lifetime, definitely.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, I used to be kind of like, like I said, I went to GMU.

I was like a grumpy 20 something libertarian who thought mandatory voting and jury duty was evil.

Don't really feel that way now.

I also think, again, calling it mandatory voting makes it much scarier sounding than it actually is.