Cause otherwise midterms discussion will be scattered around a bunch of separate Culture War thread posts. And it's nice to have more off-the-cuff rapid reactions in a dedicated megathread.
The first thing I've noticed so far: if the exit polls are correct, Americans are very pessimistic about AI.
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That is classist as fuck. I have a PhD and I regularly rely on browser spell checkers to get words such as sycophant spelled right. (I am also not a native speaker, nor an American, but that is besides the point.) I would probably have gotten hypotenuse wrong (it has a th in German and with other words like cathode the spelling stays the same while the pronounciation diverges).
I might as well say "If you do not know what Black Lotus, Beholder, the Red Wedding or Force Choke refer to you should not be voting" to define my arbitrary bubble, or refer to fancy french dinner terms instead.
Spelling correctly is even worse an ability, it is as obsolete as the ability to divide large integers with a pen. Sure, a lack of ability to spell pedestrian or calculate 216/8 might be indicative of some serious gaps in one's education, but it is not per se damning.
The thing I would prefer in voters is if they had good world models. This is a bit harder to quantify that just your class boundary, though. There is also the question if having bad world models in some domains (e.g. believing in astrology) is actually correlated with having bad world models relevant to politics (unless you select your candidates directly be their zodiac sign, in which case I would definitely prefer you refrained from voting).
"Classist" - yeah, I think so. It's mostly supposed to be funny, but I posted it in a comment to someone exonerating voters for voting contrary to their former interests as a punishment vote.
As I already commented to another, I was probably drinking one afternoon back in 2010, and it just popped into my head.
It was directed at my side of the political fuss, back when republicans were flipping their loyalties from Mitt Romney to Newt Gingrich to Rick Santorum, at break-neck speed, over any little faux pas.
The point as I have commented elsewhere, is that one should know by a certain point in their life - what is good for themself, what is good for their family, their neighborhood, their community, and have solid beliefs of what is good for their country. And because of that, they should already know what they will vote for next election, and the next, and the next.
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