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CMV: Encouraging people who have no interest in politics to vote is detrimental to the democratic process

With the UK elections today I have seen many subreddits, plus many IRL folks, encouraging everyone to go out and vote to have their voice heard.

However, I am also acutely aware of just how little the average person knows about the political system, what the parties stand for or what their policies are, or what they're voting for. Surely asking these people to vote based on what they have been told in the media (of whatever slant that may be), or what their friends have said in the pub, or what their parents have parroted to them is not a beneficial way to pick an effective leader? 

It generally means that whoever the mainstream media has more of a predisposition towards will come out victorious, it becomes more of a personality contest rather than a true democracy.

I have came to the view that in order to vote, you should have to attend a one day course in order to fill you in on the basics of politics. Unbiased, matter of fact information so people who wish to vote would be able to do so with all the facts.

I understand that this is somewhat controversial, so I invite you all to attempt to change my view.

edit: Thanks to a lot of great points against it, I am beginning to realise that my idea of having a politics course has a lot more potential pitfalls than I had considered beforehand. However, this was just a potential solution to the problem of ill information, my main point is that actively encouraging ill informed people to vote through reddit posts on non-politics subreddits (and IRL) is actively making the problem of misinformation worse than it already is, and diluting votes that have been properly considered no matter which party these are for. There is a prevailing view that everyone should vote because of the historic struggle that people have gone through to ensure this right, however I'm not convinced as to the benefits of this with there being so much slander and 'fake news' out there, which I believe is going to be more pronounced with people who are voting for the sake of it or because of peer pressure on social media etc.
gpt
The  root of "sophomore" (and thus, "sophomoric") went something like this: a person who knows just enough about a subject to wildly overestimate their competency in dealing with it.

That's how one might best describe many or most of those who have an interest in politics.  Nothing about that interest necessarily makes them better participants in the process - they may even be detrimental.

In contrast, a person disinterested in politics may have a fresh, untainted perspective that leavens the dough and forces common sense divorced of political gamesmanship into the process.

>I have came to the view that in order to vote, you should have to attend a one day course in order to fill you in on the basics of politics.

A one day course in politics would produce a legion of sophomores.

>Unbiased, matter of fact information so people who wish to vote would be able to do so with all the facts.

Unbiased information wouldn't take a day to convey.  It could fit on a note card mailed to the electorate.  If you want to say anything more than basic, unassailable facts (ie: Jeremy Corbyn is the leader of the Labour Party) you step away from objectivity.