Führer Trump

[Exeter350]

The idea that both sides can make good and bad points, and to understand those points and principles/values and to take those ideas and to craft a position which reflects more nuance

Agreed. I think people get too fixated on specific details and fail to evaluate based on the big picture.

What they should do is:
(1) Compare and evaluate official issue-by-issue stance of each political party (what they SAY they will do ; Is their logic sound? ; Do I agree with this stance?)
(2) Track past record to see what issues were actually followed through and what were not (will they do what they say?)
(3) Apply #2 to #1 and re-evaluate considering the likelihood that so-and-so issues will be followed through
(4) Cast vote

But obviously there’ll be too much info involved for a casual politics discussion / heated Internet “debate” (lol how much info can they communicate effectively for big picture discussion?).

In other words, online politics debates are superficial and narrow. They do not capture the overall picture comprehensively. They are good for getting additional viewpoints that people may miss out on their own. However, online discussions are not conclusive on their own.

Ultimately, voters have the responsibility to do their own in-depth research before casting their votes.
(Online / irl discussions do not count as research; I’m talking about actual fact finding, cross referencing, etc.)

Unfortunately, when you have too many lazy / uneducated voters in a country, it is the junk votes that determine the outcome, not the properly-researched votes.

As somebody else on the forums said recently,
“What an intellectual disaster.”

I’m just glad I don’t live in the States lol.