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Demons of Democracy

Hi-Phi Nation

CHAPTER

The Median Voter

Brennan: We suffer from confirmation bias, disconformation bias and other instances of what are called motivated reasoning. He says the uninformed people only reason they're not biased is because they just don't care enough to be biased. For Brennan, having a political system where the ignorant and the irrational make decisions on behalf of everyone else is unjust.

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