[dragonwriter]

> But knowledge and intelligence should be incentivised.

They already are, though that can be improved by decreasing the role of heritable wealth and the disadvantages of poverty through better taxation and social support policies.

Voting is the wrong place to incentivize it, even if you could without first having improved the degree to which it is incentivized in the rest of society.

> The fact that most people voting don't read politicians programs should show how autistic our system is.

Using autistic as an insult here is inappropriate on multiple levels; also, I'd argue that it's perhaps jist rational, since politicians actions are only rarely usefully related to their written programs, and there are much more accessible ways of getting information that is much better at predicting their behavior in office.

[The_rationalist]

Using autistic as an insult here is inappropriate on multiple levels; It was not meant to be in the litteral sense, I was meaning retarded which indeed real autists are not. Most insults/pejorative words are not understood literally usually but well you're probably right.

since politicians actions are only rarely usefully related to their written programs This is just too excessive, hyperbolic. If you want to quantify it, there you go: https://trumptracker.github.io/ much more accessible ways of getting information that is much better at predicting their behavior in office. Enlighten me then, where is such a thing?