# Meet Bernie Sanders **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 5, 2016, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-bernie-sanders/745207 "2016-02-05T04:32:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 26
**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:** [March 9, 2016, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-bernie-sanders/745207/26 "2016-03-09T00:06:46Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > What is the point behind labeling GMO if there is nothing bad about GMO? What is the point of listing all the ingredients in packaged food products if they’re not necessarily harmful? > [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > Why not simply allow non-GMO foods to label themselves as non-GMO? Because, as in the ingredients list, the public’s right to know what they are putting in their pie-hole requires a mandate, and except in special cases it’s usually difficult to mandate a declaration of absence. I don’t have a single food item that confidently assures me that it “does not contain rat poison” and is “100% plutonium-free”. > [@Richard\_Parker](#): > > All candidates are primarily supported by low-information voters, because the vast majority of voters are low-information voters. There’s no actual evidence to support the hypothesis that more people are supporting Hillary out of ignorance than support Sanders out of ignorance. I agree completely, though ignorance does tend to gravitate to the better known, better looking, better hair, etc. But on the ignorance thing, I was responding to the poster who had said “Nothing tells me a person has amateurish half-baked political ideas like an insistence that the only explanation for disagreeing opinions is ignorance.” And my point was – and thank you for endorsing it – that while ignorance is rarely the _ **only** _ explanation for political choices, it’s a very prevalent one. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-bernie-sanders/745207)._