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posted by [personal profile] simont at 08:17am on 10/05/2005
The trouble is that it might depend a bit on which policies you care about. If (say) I'm voting LibDem because they're the only major party to even mention civil liberties in their manifesto, and if (say) my expertise in economics is so small as to be actively harmful if I try to think about it too hard, then it isn't clear to me that I should be required to come to an understanding of their economic policy in order to express my strong and (IMHO) important opinion that civil liberties are worth paying some attention to.
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posted by [identity profile] atreic.livejournal.com at 08:47am on 10/05/2005
Who said anything about coming to a full understanding of their economics policy? See my reply above :

If your irrational fear about Europe being swamped by immagrants was that great, it could probably spur you on to learn and remember* some trivia about the anti-immagrants party for 5 minutes, which in turn might give you a broader idea of the issues for the next election.

Why should you have to? To prove you can be arsed and have thought about stuff

*Or read, I think I've made the damn idea open book by this stage in the arguement
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