A well informed voter is a good voter.
A well informed voter is a good voter.
More information does not necessarily lead to a better vote (where "better" is defined as the vote that the voter would pick were they in possession of all relevant information).
To illustrate, imagine two candidates: candidate A, who looks like a regular politician, and candidate B, who looks like a serial killer. In the absence of any further information, you vote for candidate A.
Now imagine you read an entirely truthful pamphlet detailing guy A's trust fund excesses and other misdemeanors, while helpfully mentioning that guy B volunteers in a homeless shelter in his spare time. You switch your vote to guy B.
But it transpires that guy B occasionally abducts and murders the odd homeless person. He really is a serial killer! So your initial, "uninformed" vote was correct, and moreover correct for the right reasons, despite being strictly better informed after reading the pamphlet.
Trump will certainly have skeletons in his closet too.
P.S: Not a Killary supporter (just making sure I'm not misunderstood ;-)
As a German, I find it very weird that so many americans support politicians who boast about assassinating people.
How is it correct for the right reasons? If I were to follow this "logic", then what you're saying is I should go with my first instinct, which has been molded and influenced by my own life experiences and by the people/community that I've interacted with.
What if that person was a radical xenophobe? will he be correct for the right reasons?
Incidentally, I'm not sure what else you can base your opinions on, other than some weighted average of your life experiences and the opinions of those around you. Whether a radical xenophobe is correct for the "right reasons" or not depends on whether they came to that perspective by rational observation, and for a functioning democracy we have to assume on good faith that's the case, as distasteful as it may seem. The alternative is declaring their opinions wrong and forbidding them from voting.
any time now...