[lbo-talk] the American electorate

Jon Johanning jjohanning at igc.org
Mon Oct 25 10:11:42 PDT 2004


On Oct 25, 2004, at 10:36 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


> Every nation has leadership it deserves. Stupid people elect stupid
> leaders
> - and you cannot save them against their own will.

Wouldn't it be fair to say that a large number of voters in just about *any* country would be pretty clueless, too? I don't know of any studies that have been done to compare percentages of ditsy voters around the world, but perhaps there are some.

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