@marick and i am obviously communicating very badly! i am not critiquing scolding voters as a political tactic. i mean i think it’s probably dumb, but if someone thinks it a good tactic, have at. what i’m critiquing is *blaming voters*, that is, among those of us who intervene in politics, attributing responsibility for putative bad outcomes to voters’ nature or effectively immutable preferences, rather than to the things we intervenors do and to the institutions we all collectively shape. 2/