I have no doubt that this will attract some people to turn out and vote
But I really worry that this will just create a second party of brainwashed idiots who are just riding the hype train and not actually engaging with politics.
Which, to be fair, is probably what the party leadership wants. If they can get a bunch of people who blindly show up because they bought into the hype, then they don’t have to actually of the things those of us who have been paying attention have been begging them to do.
An informed voter base that votes based on understanding the policies is of course the ideal, but the problem is a significant chunk of the current voters are already those brainwashed idiots voting for the loudest moron. If what it takes to unseat them is an equivalent group of brainwashed idiots voting in the opposite direction that might just be the compromise we have to make. The critical thing is going to be that the person those idiots elect needs to actually pass intelligent policies. If you can convince morons to vote for someone actually intelligent, that’s still an improvement over the current state where morons are electing either pure evil, morons, or both.
I have no doubt that this will attract some people to turn out and vote
But I really worry that this will just create a second party of brainwashed idiots who are just riding the hype train and not actually engaging with politics.
Which, to be fair, is probably what the party leadership wants. If they can get a bunch of people who blindly show up because they bought into the hype, then they don’t have to actually of the things those of us who have been paying attention have been begging them to do.
Well a big problem is people don’t show up and magically expect politicians to know what they want.
Voter turnout is abysmal yet we all still blame only politicians.
An informed voter base that votes based on understanding the policies is of course the ideal, but the problem is a significant chunk of the current voters are already those brainwashed idiots voting for the loudest moron. If what it takes to unseat them is an equivalent group of brainwashed idiots voting in the opposite direction that might just be the compromise we have to make. The critical thing is going to be that the person those idiots elect needs to actually pass intelligent policies. If you can convince morons to vote for someone actually intelligent, that’s still an improvement over the current state where morons are electing either pure evil, morons, or both.