This article makes my brain hurt.
The author of this article is obviously a low information author.
The point is that those voters the government has made dependent on government programs, are bought and paid for voters, voting in their own self interest.
He’s suggesting this invalidates the “low information” tag.
I disagree due to the fact they fail to recognize they’ve been intentionally trapped into dependence on the government.
Instead, they believe the lie that conservatives and big business have trapped them in that environment.
Low Information means their gas tank of information is on low. It means they don't know details and they don't know basic data.
So, there is no way that a person who doesn't know the name of the current vice-president is not a low information voter. This is basic data that can easily be gleaned by simple observation.
And I suspect that their knowing that someone or other is going to cut food stamps is because they were told even that, that they didn't learn it on their own.
Sadly the author is mistaken. Today’s low information voter can be so by a lack of knowledge or a willingness to be led, either physically or by electronic means. Add to this the number of people voting for additional handouts, and we have a major problem in America. Today’s voter has forgotten or never known the cost of freedom and lives with a blind assumption that it will continue. Their willingness to trade it away for minor things (smoking pot) is like the Indians selling Manhattan for beads.
What? All of them are "highly intelligent"?
The author does not know what he is talking about.
Wanting free stuff and government handouts does not make someone sophisticated. It destroys a society when an ever smaller number of producers is expected to support an ever larger percent of criminals and parasites.
Look at Detroit, the Democrats who were voted in forced out middle class families, the social structure collapsed and the City is now bankrupt.
In other words, cannot come to the truth that we do have “stupid voters”.
:: If a Republican says they’re going to cut welfare, cut food stamps and limit Social Security Disability people who are living off of those programs will rationally choose not to vote for such people. If a Democrat is going to make living on welfare almost as lucrative as working a minimum wage job, it makes perfect sense that many people will vote for the Democrat. ::
I think I see a concern with the argument, here. The author divides the USA into either Dhimmicrat or Pubbie. To him, there are no “Americans”, only voters.
Good conclusion. IMO the idea that "no education = votes liberal" is incorrect. The deciding factor isn't "low information", it's "low morals".
True, but people who don't know s**t are.
You admit that there are many low information voters, then conflate rationality with ignorant greed. Rational analysis about politics requires the ability to acquire and digest relevant information (”trivia”), to place that information in context, and judge the effects of alternative causes.
Do you honestly think those who don’t know the name of major officeholders, etc., understand political principles and issues, or consider the likely overall effects their votes portend? The ability to frame the thought “gimmedat” is indeed rational, in a debased, reptilian way. It is not equivalent to the evaluation of long-term cause and effect, or the prudent judgment that sustainable “democracy” requires.
So knowing how the government works and who is responsible is mere trivia, and believing Democratic Party propaganda without question is being informed.
War is peace.
Ignorance is strength.
Long live Big Brother Obama!
But, what to do about low-information bloggers?
Garbage in, garbage out, as they say.
The dirty secret is that there are low information voters on both sides. Some people are simply conditioned to be conservative the same as some are ‘yellow-dog’. That’s just the way it is.
But it’s more fun being knee-jerk ‘right’ all the time. They keep stumbling into correct hunches.
It appears to me that the author has only further supported the appropriateness of labelling these voters, “low-information-voters”.
They merely vote for the politician who promises them the most goodies and that’s as deep as their understanding goes. They don’t bother to intelligently consider the subsequent ramifications to themselves, their progeny and their nation. Though that may be driven by selfishness, it does not negate the fact that they are superficial, low-information voters by any definition of the term (not to be too pedantic).
This low information idiot is raising short term animal like self interest to the level of informed enlightenment.
The people he’s defending are as well informed as a dog going after a steak.