On both sides, everyone thinks the other to be low IQ and uninformed. The reality is that IQ has less to do with it than information. Everyone attempts to vote

On both sides, everyone thinks the other to be low IQ and uninformed. The reality is that IQ has less to do with it than information. Everyone attempts to vote their self-interest with the information that they have. A dirty secret of politics is that you can't know what information you don't have unless you spend significant time on both sides. But even then, there is a lot of hidden politics and history that makes having accurate political perspective difficult for everyone.