ANyone that has a fecesbook account, especially using it on a phone, is pathetic. Better off watching soap operas.holmes435 wrote:I think low information voter is a misnomer. I think the more appropriate term is low effort voter, confirmation bias voter, or something similar.ChairmanOfTheBoard wrote:that i can pick them out is irrelevant- what are you trying to say about low information voters? they should be able to exercise their vote at whatever level of diligence they choose- not the level you choose.seacoaster wrote:Mr. Chairman, you know -- and I mean you actually know -- better than this. There are no barriers to entry for voting for me; over 18, not a felon, you get to vote. You know what a low information voter is when you see him or her. They don't do any of the spade work to understand what this candidate or that candidate might mean; they are swept on a magic carpet ride of invective, rather than a meaningful idea of how the candidate's ideas and leanings and background and connections might effect them and their families.
Democracy needs an educated consumer and voter; today we tweet and retweet. It means trouble.
so what do i have to do to become a "high information" voter? read the atlantic? live on the coasts???
just my opinion. i respect yours.
Take my aunt for instance. She's Pre Baby-Boomer (a war baby), went to one of the best universities in the country, ran her own foreign affairs research company for years, and can outsmart most of us on here. But she regularly posts easily debunked things on social media. One recent example was that Facebook was banning the Marines EGA logo. If she took about 30 seconds to search, she would have found some pretty detailed stories about a particular group getting banned from Facebook due to highly inflammatory posts, and they used the logo on their page. Hell, if you just go to the official Marines facebook page, it's plastered all over the place, so it's obviously not true.
I see it from liberal friends as well - they re-share things that are designed to inflame your emotions and get you riled up, and many times are stretching the truth or flat out wrong.
Anecdotally I see it way more from right-leaning friends and family, but there have been a number of studies surrounding knowledge of current events and where people get their news from that support that observation.
While the term "low information voter" may be technically true in some regards, it's a term that people will take offense to. Come to think of it, "emotional voters" may be the most apropos term. And as I've said many times over the years here and on LP, it's easier to drum up emotional responses when you present yourself as being attacked, which Republicans have nearly perfected as a campaign strategy over the past 14 years IMO.
So, Holmes, the important thing is , do YOU point out to your liberal friends, on fecebook, that they are WRONG? The answer is important in so many ways.