Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 week agoEveryone’s opinions don’t matter the same. If I take the time and energy to understand a topic, my opinion has more weight than Joe Schmo who looked it up on Facebook. As Isaac Asimov said:
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
We are not talking about science, we are talking about politics.
In science you can study gravity and then your opinion on how gravity works os more important than the opinion of someone who hasn’t study gravity.
But we are talking about politics, politics is about what people want with their lives. And no matter what have you studied or how much have you studied. The biggest authority on someone’s life it’s always going to be that one person.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s true that not every question in politics has an absolute, factual answer. But some do, and there’s a minimum standard of discussion below which people are just working with misinformation and will not be correct regardless of their goals.