I think I more or less agree with this. One thing I've noticed (casually, anecdotally) is that voters seem to know next to nothing about who or what they're voting for. They only go out to vote because of the EVERYONE MUST VOTE and then they just pick the options that are most familiar to them. That or they have a very ideological "good vs evil" mindset and they pick the options that are colored good.
For my own sake, I also kind of wish I knew more when going out to vote. The problem is, I feel like there's no reliable and efficient way for me to read up on what politicians are actually saying and doing. Perhaps the press is supposed to be my source for that but publications are always biased. I can read multiple publications from different perspectives but then they just kind of contradict each other, and I'm left with nothing. Not to mention it's time consuming and not very fun to read the same thing with a slightly different spin multiple times!
For my own sake, I also kind of wish I knew more when going out to vote. The problem is, I feel like there's no reliable and efficient way for me to read up on what politicians are actually saying and doing. Perhaps the press is supposed to be my source for that but publications are always biased. I can read multiple publications from different perspectives but then they just kind of contradict each other, and I'm left with nothing. Not to mention it's time consuming and not very fun to read the same thing with a slightly different spin multiple times!