but I earned my lesson an even worse way.
Although I didn't favor Carter in the primary, I didn't know enough to be alarmed and ended up cluelessly satisfied to vote for him in the GE because I hadn't learned by experience or by doing my homework. (Hey, I was having too much fun crawling around with my babies for all that.)
Although I really didn't believe GA Governor Carter that Democrats in congress needed him to clean up their "corruption," I was far too inexperienced to recognize his classically deceitful and negative "reform candidacy" as one of the huge, flaming warning signs of a outsider populist campaign -- being waged by someone who was universally rejected as the wrong material by Democrats who knew him. To whom normal paths to office were closed for cause.
If more of us had just done a little homework, the final hurrah of our magnificent New Deal era wouldn't have taken place as a small-government/economic conservative president battling the Democratic controlled, progressive-minded congress we gave him. A Democratic trifecta -- just think what we could have accomplished if we'd elected one of several progressive Democratic candidates experienced in national government.
As a mistake, Sinema is very small potatoes in comparison. Though we'd mostly agree that learning with much less powerful, more quickly replaced positions would be desirable, learning by personal experience at all is the absolute WORST way. 
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