Research by Harvard political scientist Erica Chenoweth has shown that movements which actively engage just 3.5% of the population rarely fail to bring about change. This finding comes from studying hundreds of campaigns across the last century.
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A 2008 and 2016 poll of voters showed wishful thinking bias led a majority of people to believe their favored candidate was going to win.
Over the last 60 years, the number of democracies has doubled and the number of autocracies has been cut in half.
There’s less than a 0.00001% chance that your vote will be the tiebreaker that decides the outcome of a national elections.You are more likely to be injured in a car accident driving to the polls (0.002% chance). Hence, if you are trying to make a practical improvement in your life and those of your loved ones, it is much more rational to just stay home on election day.
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A Utilitarian Party Platform
Jonathan Baron proposes this Utilitarian Party platform: Utilitarians try to help people achieve their rational goals. We focus on the issues where policies can make a big difference. We count all people. We are internationalists. We are concerned with what is best for the world, not just the U.S., or our race or people with the […]