That is what makes me lose faith in democracy. At least the way we practice it, without any requirements for education.

Starship Troopers had an interesting idea where citizenship required military service prior to allowing you to vote - it was fair bc it was applied to everyone equally, though e.g. rich people could educate their kids earlier and they would get cushy spots ofc.

But without some kind of basic education requirement… I don’t see how we can survive the double whammy of both capitalism (where e.g. our news media tells us what is profitable to say, not what is factual) and now facing the age of not merely misinformation (easily cured by like a 5-minute video on a subject) but campaigns of active disinformation (for which there is no readily available cure that I am aware of, beyond a preemptive vaccine of knowledge).

Well, whatever happens will be what happens, I suppose. And after that… we’ll see how it goes.