Winston Churchill is credited with saying that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried which could be why he wasn't quite so keen to give the vote to other nations the British ruled over and manufactured famines, dropped chemical weapons and tortured them instead but what Democracy does give us is the chance to vote for window shakingly stupid things.
In the UK we got given the deciding decision on Brexit and in an amazing act of self harm voted for it and recently in America we saw Donald Trump voted back into Office, that is convicted criminal and sex offender Donald Trump whose first act was to release the thousands convicted of trying to subvert the Democratic process when he lost the 2020 vote and threw a petulant hissy fit.
Delving into it we can say that the Voters were expressing a dissatisfaction with the status quo and either didn't know, or didn't care, that they were voting against their self-interest.
With Brexit the 52% are experiencing the non-benefits of their choices, Americans are quickly finding out their error but that is how Democracy works, everyone has to live with and abide by what the majority decide and so we go back to Winnie again who also said that the best argument against democracy is a conversation with the average voter.
There are many Psychological experiments which show Group Think which is when a group of people were asked to answer a question together they would attempt to come to a consensus with some conforming to the other view without critical reasoning or evaluation of the consequences or alternatives in a desire not to upset the balance of a group of people.
I have heard that we are moving into a 'post-democracy World' but i think that at some point, with AI becoming more critical to our lives, humans will be removed from the decision making process altogether because, to be fair, we have proved we are not very good at it.
Sunday, 9 February 2025
Why Do We Suck At Group Think?
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how are we quickly learning from our mistake? do you mean giving a doter named Biden 4 years to:
> increase the US deficit more than any president ever
> dump trillions of dollars onto the economy driving inflation and hurting every American
> leaving border control to mexico allowing the US to be flooded with uneducated, unskilled immigrants many of whom were criminals
> leaving border control to mexico which let fentanyl and other drugs flood the US
> completely botching the exit from Afghanistan causing many unnecessary deaths
> give russia a free reign to invade the Ukraine
> pardon everyone in his family from FUTURE criminal prosecution for the millions of dollars they received from china thru hunter
> impose vaccines, lock downs, and other limits on Americans using COVID as the reason - while attempting to hide and cover up known faults in related research and actual results
> the list is very much longer
You are going to so livid when you find out Biden wasn’t the nomination.
i usually understand your comments. i find they are almost always unfounded in reality, but i understand you are a leftist at heart and understand the twisted, envious, fearful logic it takes to support such thinking, but this comment from you is unintelligible...
i am already aware the joe joe didn't get the nomination...
Oops…it missed out a word so let’s try again.
You are going to BE so livid when you find out Biden wasn’t the nomination.
There you go.
uh, that is ancient history. why would i be livid?
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