Human Nature

[Ivan Denisovich]

I don't see voters as any better than their politicians.  If the facts don't prevail in our policies, it is just as much the voters' fault.

Of course voters aren't better. They chose politicians in their own likeness and in their own image. Propaganda plays a role too, obviously but in the end I think that people vote on politicians who embody qualities they like. Which is why politicians often are shitty.

So for me it all still comes down to human nature and its various problems.  Politicizing everything is an effect rather than a cause IMO.

As far as I am concerned human nature have nothing to do with it. How could it? For dumb peasant is natural to vote on fascist while enlightened member of middle class votes on progressive thanks to his noble nature? It's reductive and simplistic view with explanatory power akin to saying "things are how they are" and in fact it smacks of classism, at least in my view. I might have only contempt for those who vote on far right but I'm certain that they have reasons which are as valid to them as mine are to me when I vote left.