The uneducated can vote.

Belief is largely social. This is true for all of us, to some extent. It doesn’t matter much when the social belief is “our baseball team is the best”. Unfortunately, the republican worldview is afactual and hateful. That’s really the bulk of it, I think. People identify with republicans, or with their neighbors that are republicans, and that’s the most important thing. More important than facts or truth.

Also there’s a lot of authoritarians. They want a strong in-group and an out-group to hurt.

So when someone says like “So-and-so Republican is a rapist, felon, and liar” that smashes right into the “my in-group is important, and if i reject my in-group I will die alone” part of the brain. So the facts bounce off and they write you off as an asshole.

Fixing that seems difficult. Appealing to a shared group identity can work (eg: we’re all americans here and we want to make the best of our great country, together). You see this sometimes where someone hates some out-group, and then actually meets a member and spends time with them. Now that person might be part of the in-group, and things have to shift around.

The other thing that changes minds is trauma. Horrible trauma. If your house gets blown apart by a hurricane, that might be enough for you to reevaluate your world view.

Anyway, the oatmeal did a comic about belief: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe Here’s a free book about authoritarians: https://theauthoritarians.org/

In their districts, they have the right letter next to their names on the ballot. Also, the “own the libtards.”

Because the people voting are dumber than these fucktards.

My Uber reductionist explanation.

I get you scared. You vote for the cure to what I’m scaring you on.

Most people, except the very scared, don’t vote.

Republicans say “hell is coming unless you vote for me”, which gets people scared and thus voting

Democrats, “well try our hardest to build helpful systems that make the middle class grow again” … People stop listening and don’t vote…

That’s how

Fuck. 2020 got more people voting than any other presidential election in recent history and it STILL didn’t break 50% of legal voters.

As Olbermann asked about MTG’s district,“Does the entire district resemble the movie Deliverance?”

One can only guess that there is a large and chronically uninformed body of people that only get their information from the bad guys’ personal propaganda machine.