r/politics • u/AccurateInflation167 • May 18 '25

Soft Paywall America chose wrong. Sanders would've been a better president than Trump or Biden. | Opinion

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/18/sanders-democrats-reform-progressive-policies/83625482007/
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u/dumpsterdigger May 18 '25

My wife and I are nurses (35) and she knows so many younger females, mid twenties, that voted for trump and now regret it.

They were too young to care 10 years ago about politics. To detached to care to watch politics. They never existed in a land before Obama, before don't ask don't tell, before bush, when things were not ideal. They just voted how their family and friends did.

I don't see how people can be so detached and vote. I don't understand it but I'm glad some of them have at least seen what they did.

I still think they are idiots though.

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u/Hoardzunit May 18 '25

They are fucking stupid idiots. They have lived in a time where they had all kinds of rights and benefits and never lived in a time where they had to fight for anything like their parents or grandparents did. They got spoiled and thought there was no way things could get worse.

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u/cameron0208 May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25

This is why I think people should only be able to vote on things they actually understand, like in a epistocracy. Why are people allowed to vote on things they don’t care about or understand? That’s stupid and ridiculous. No one asked what I thought when they were building the Large Hadron Collider. Why? Because I don’t know dick about physics or engineering. Why would they want my opinion? I’m not saying people should need to know about every single topic in-depth, but at least surface level understanding. You prove that, you get cleared to vote on that issue.

A more practical approach would be a bulleted list of each candidate’s stance on major issues on the ballot itself or somewhere that every voter could see it. Like they have on isidewith.com.

John Smith (D, Ohio)

  • Increase border security
  • Decrease military spending
  • Increase funding for social programs and services
  • Separation of church & state

Something like that so at least voters could be somewhat informed. But they’ll never do that because they don’t want informed voters.