Bryan Calcott
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So the, can they impact people in a small way?
Yes.
It depends.
Well, especially with something like social media, you could probably spend a lot less.
Correct.
Yeah.
OK.
Wow.
That to me, though, that to me is concerning because now I'm voting on a ballot through simple name recognition rather than...
And then saying, and this might sound fucking crazy, but I personally believe that if you haven't read specific books, if you haven't read the Federalist Papers, if you haven't read Locke, Two Treatises of Government, if you haven't, Hobbes, Leviathan, all those core political pieces, I don't think you should fucking have the right to vote.
Well, it's like you have the right to do all these things, so as long as they're not negatively impacting other people.
So if your ignorant vote is voting into politics, it's like war on drugs, right?
The war on drugs is based upon societal ignorance.
Ooh, drugs bag, outlaw, it goes away.
And it's just happening right in front of you.
No, this is clearly not the case.
And you had people, PhDs in criminology,
saying, if we want to stop drugs, if we want to stop all these bad things, this is what we should do.
So it was within the public interest that drug use be reduced.
But public interest came at the expense of public opinion.