[ExI] Immaculate Election

[William Flynn Wallace]

Also, true socialism has never been tried.

I'll bet it has.  Hippie communities in the '60s - but I am just guessing.
Also guessing that it didn't last for long, like free love without
jealousy.  HAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!  bill w

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 7:23 PM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Anton:
> >>> [...] and there is little to no benefit to the voter
> >>> in making an effort to choose wisely.
>
> Dan:
> >> ...The latter is the gist of Bryan Caplan’s The Myth of the
> >> Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, a book
> >> I’ve been hoping for years now that Spike would read.
>
> Spike:
> > The reason I have not chosen to invest the time in that book
> > is that I already know Democracies choose bad policies.
>
> Knowing that they do != understanding why they do.
>
> (Full disclosure: I haven't read it either,
> but maybe Dan doesn't think I need to)
>
> > Fortunately the USA is not a democracy.
>
> Also, true socialism has never been tried.
>
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