Don't "JUST Vote". LEARN.
Channel: Common Sense Soapbox
Date: 2022-06-29

Well, we finally did it. We've come out against voting... for policies you don't understand. 

Seriously. Voting is fine. But if you don't take the time to actually *learn* something about the public policy issues and candidates you're voting on, you're going to do much more harm than good -- even if you think you're doing the right thing.
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CREDITS: 
Written by Tyler Brandt, Sean W. Malone, and Seamus Coughlin
Animated by Seamus Coughlin
Produced & Edited by Sean W. Malone
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LINKS:

– Unintended Consequences of Policy –
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/UnintendedConsequences.html
https://www.austriancenter.com/unintended-consequences-of-regulation/
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/AustrianSchoolofEconomics.html
https://fee.org/media/15003/cliches46.pdf
https://fee.org/articles/the-cobra-effect-lessons-in-unintended-consequences/
https://immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/CATO_US/C050125W.pdf
https://fee.org/articles/st-paul-s-mayor-is-already-scrambling-to-amend-the-city-s-harmful-rent-control-law/
https://fee.org/articles/how-minimum-wage-and-rent-control-laws-fail-the-bronowski-test/
https://fee.org/archive/topics/Unintended%20Consequences
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6867865-the-curious-task-of-economics-is-to-demonstrate-to-men

– Irrational Voting –
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1830396?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter#:~:text=The%20Myth%20of%20the%20Rational%20Voter%3A%20Why%20Democracies%20Choose%20Bad,can%20trust%20to%20make%20laws
https://www.issuelab.org/resources/2808/2808.pdf
https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=723
https://www.econlib.org/archives/2016/03/myth_of_the_rat_9.html
https://fee.org/archive/topics/Voting
https://fee.org/resources/liberty-a-path-to-its-recovery/#link-8
https://fee.org/articles/fa-harper-the-greatest-threat-to-liberty-is-the-idea-that-democracy-guarantees-freedom/
https://fee.org/articles/3-ideas-for-making-the-post-election-world-a-better-place/
https://fee.org/resources/against-majority-rule/