It's true that there is a base, knee-jerk reaction to seeing something that strikes us as strange or out of the ordinary. The whole point of being in a society is to rise above such simple things and be more sophisticated and intelligent, not just a dog barking at an unfamiliar car.

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I agree with this. One amendmwnt that I think could pass is to modify the electoral college so that winning > 50% nets you some number of bonus electors but that if no candidate reaches 50% there is a second round of voting.

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Two things that are good policies in their own right and would also hopefully make people less stupid about inflation: - Peg the minimum wage to inflation, so it automatically scales with inflation - Require employers to scale wages/salaries with inflation and represent failures to do so as pay cuts

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ultimately it's shit like this that makes the decline of birth rates and resulting demographic skewing towards old people self-reinforcing. Greedy, wealthy retired people voting to destroy the funding for public services they relied on throughout their life now that they no longer need them

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A core, animating belief among a disturbing number of people is "Other people should have to pay taxes, but I shouldn't."

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