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You Don’t Have to Know Everything About Politics
Voters can still make good decisions without having all the facts. Plus, Jonathan Bernstein’s morning links.
Being informed is nice.
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Kevin Drum has a nice, short piece on misinformation. He was talking to a friend who had a lot of “facts” wrong, despite being a perfectly intelligent person and not being a crazed ideologue or hard partisan. Drum wonders whether this is some sort of media failure.
I suppose in a way it is, but mostly it’s just the normal conditions of politics.