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I know it's frustrating as hell, but lashing out at voters isn't the answer. They're not dumb, they're just not engaged. The system of American politics keeps them disengaged on purpose.
"Not engaged" means "willfully ignorant".
The presidential election season is like 18 months long. Information is ubiquitous. Plenty of time to find just one rabbit hole to stumble into and realize your guy is a conman and a crook.
In fact, I'd say it's pretty much impossible that these people were "not engaged". They chose to not engage. They had the same opportunity to educate themselves and they chose to tune it out. That's what toddlers do. Stick fingers in their ears and proceed on with life. Only remove fingers from ear to lick wax. This is how the majority of Americans choose to live their life.
Maybe literacy tests wouldn't be such a bad idea now that there is compulsory education .
Damn, literacy tests... now there's a policy the Democrats haven't championed since Jim Crow. I remember Rush Limbaugh going on a scree about us "needing" to bring back those in the 1990's. Are there any other policies from one of the darkest periods of American history you would also like to go back to? Perhaps the reimplementation of poll taxes or just force marching some Native Americans into the desert?
The literacy test mention was really trying to be tongue-in-cheek.
The problem with literacy tests was that they specifically targeted black people. Black people were largely illiterate because they were excluded from education. Nowadays everybody is required to get an education.
Ideally everybody would put more thought into who should be leading the free world than they do into which brand of toothpaste they prefer, but unfortunately I don't think there's any fair way to enforce that.