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Demons of Democracy

Hi-Phi Nation

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Is It Possible to Make Everybody Vote?

Democracy's the argument goes are supposed to make people lazy and ignorant about politics. The reason this happens is because of an endemic flaw in democracy, he says. We know why people are like this - it's called rational irrationality. If you become really informed, you incur all of the costs, but you nevertheless expect other people not to be informed.

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