Voters have a duty to inform themselves. [View all]

[Moebym]

There have been many columns written on how Democrats failed to connect or Republicans are more efficient at spreading lies.

And I have to ask: Can we please not pretend that voters, even less "tuned-in to politics" ones, have no agency over their choices and need to be led as if blindfolded and unable to hear?

If they're capable of researching cars, schools, neighborhood crime rates, and insurance plans when it's important to them, they're capable of researching candidates and issues. But too many don't bother, and in this election, we're all paying the price for this.

It literally would have taken them seconds to Google "tariffs" and discover that consumers pay the costs, not China. It literally would have taken them a few minutes to research Harris' and Trump's respective plans and read the main takeaways - you get the idea.

You wouldn't just move somewhere and hope your children's school is a good one. You wouldn't simply believe the claims of a used car salesman about a lemon. So why would you leave the greatest decision of your lives to a whim or a gut feeling?

You don't have to be particularly tuned-in to politics. You don't have to be particularly well-educated. You just have to treat this decision as you would any other important one, and do some homework. That's it.