Now that the resumption of the political course is approaching, if we can thus call this interinity sought by the acting president, it is worth putting a certain sociological context to the partisan battles that are approaching. To do this, we can start from one of the data included in the last CIS barometer, published at the end of July: as a symptom. We read there that 47.7% of respondents have no news of the existence of the General Council of the Judiciary , a percentage that rises to 62.3% in young people between 18 and 24 years. Naturally, that does not prevent half of the Spaniards - what else are the respondents, metonymy by means of suspicion of the independence of the courts.

It does not seem necessary to do an exercise of imagination too intense to deduce from this fact that the majority of the voters are handled in democratic life without a precise idea of ​​their institutional contents. And the same goes for economic mechanisms or pure actuality. This, except for those who insist on romanticizing our public opinions , is no surprise. For the late Giovanni Sartori , systematic ignorance of the mass public is the best argument in favor of representative democracy over the usual referendum. Other interpreters are less pessimistic and claim that even the most uninformed of voters manages to make cognitive shortcuts that lead to reasonable collective decisions. Invisible hand!

More radical are the conclusions of the American libertarian Jason Brennan , who is committed to recovering the epistocracy - or government of the most educated - from the trunk of the history of political thought. That is: nobody could exercise their right to vote without demonstrating basic knowledge. It is, needless to say, an undesirable and also impracticable proposal. We must recognize, however, a certain value as a moral appeal; what the voter asks is that his right to vote be taken seriously. But it is a useless appeal: just as we all think we are well dressed in the street, no citizen thinks it would be more prudent to abstain from lack of information. And that is why - because the urn can come with the post - we choose those who decide instead of deciding us .

There is no doubt that the parties know the cloth; your cloth And they act accordingly: pulling down.

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