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[–] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 50 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

I believe public opinion is fairly left leaning. Just looks how popular Bernie and AOC are. It's just that corporate media discourse is very good at suppressing left wing views.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

What I mean is taking the opinion of the public seriously. I mean, people believe in a lot of weird things and that includes me. As an example, lot of people are anti-vaxxers, that doesn't actually make vaccines dangerous. Should their opinion matter? If so, how much?

I think the quote is meant to consider that sometimes we must ignore public opinion and do what is right. But, I agree some nuance could be lost. But sadly, the quote has no context because it is from a list of quotes Oscar Wilde wrote. Maybe, we should supply our own nuance.?

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Public opinion has a pretty big influence on who is getting voted into public offices. Ignore at your own peril.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes, but that is the problem of politicians. Regular people like you or me can safely ignore public opinion. Because we know how dumb public is.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

Politicians are very much our problem.

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

So glad I'm regular and not like 'the others'. Politicians should just be regular like us too and ignore the opinion of their constituencies. They should instead only represent 'the better' people. /s

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