Bryan Caplan on the Myth of the Rational Voter
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The Psychological Cost of Voting for a Society You Don't Want to Live In
In Mexico, if a politician proposes to make the country more like the U.S., no one would vote for it because they don't want to live in that kind of society. The question then is whether people are doing that blindly or knowingly. There's a contradiction there of sorts, not a literal contradiction, but there's a contradictions there of sorts. That basically would require a person to turn his back on one of the things that makes his country distinct.
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