# Democratic National Convention August 19-22 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** kamala-harris\ **Created:** [August 17, 2024, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democratic-national-convention-august-19-22-2024/1005835 "2024-08-17T15:55:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 981
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democratic-national-convention-august-19-22-2024/1005835/981 "2024-08-24T01:40:14Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > You may see it as abdication of responsibility, but that is because it interests you. Many people have lives to live and paying close attention to politics is a significant burden to them, one way or the other, so they just hang back and sometimes catch a soundbite or two. It’s absolutely an abdication of responsibility because democracy itself is crucially and fundamentally dependent on the **participation of an informed populace**. If the people are not informed, or are misinformed, or simply choose not to participate, democracy and our way of life are in peril. Politics and elections are not a sport like basketball or baseball, they’re the mechanism by which we determine and safeguard of our way of life. If I sound contemptuous when I refer to undecided voters in a context like this as low-information morons, it’s because I absolutely am. In fact let me expand that further: “low-information morons who are a threat to our democracy”. It’s ironic that these morons may go to great lengths to analyze and celebrate or mourn the win or loss of their baseball team as if the world depended on it, yet couldn’t care less about the things that the world actually and literally does depend on. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democratic-national-convention-august-19-22-2024/1005835)._