People aren’t electing “morons” out of ignorance. They are electing people that hate the same people they hate. You are blaming ignorance where it is active malice.

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1718627440 2 days ago | parent [-]

Electing people for the things they hate is ignorance for politics as a serious field.

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raw_anon_1111 2 days ago | parent [-]

Again you call it ignorance instead of malevolence.

How is electing Trump any different than George Wallace having a slogan of “Segregation Now! Segregation Tomorrow! Segregation Forever!”?

There was no ignorance. Everyone knows that the government has a “monopoly on [legalized] violence”. If they can elect people who will turn that violence against people they don’t like, they are doing it with full knowledge.

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1718627440 a day ago | parent [-]

Ignorance is a type of action, malevolence is a motivation. You can be ignorant out of malevolence and your ignorance can result in your actions being malicious.

Voting based on who the (to be) elected hate instead of on actual policy is ignorant towards the serious matter of the art of leading a state (politics). Being malevolent regarding politics would be to sabotage elections or trying to dissolve state organs.

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raw_anon_1111 20 hours ago | parent [-]

You mean when thousands of yokels broke into the Capital to try to overturn an election in January of 2020?

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1718627440 18 hours ago | parent [-]

I thought we are still talking about "electing".

	▲	raw_anon_1111 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They were explicitly trying to “sabotage an election”