The Big Assumption About Voter Turnout

There is a big assumption that if we can get people to vote, it will ALSO force them to think about the issues and candidates in a critical way; this election has proven that completely false. We had a record-breaking number of voters, 24/7 media sensationalist coverage of this President (albeit Mainstream Media is complete crap), and people by the tens of millions still made horrible, nonsensical choices. What this means is we need to focus on building CRITICAL THINKING and AWARENESS. If you can't tell if Trump is a savior, or if corona virus is a real threat, etc. you definitely don't have the observation and/or decision-making skills to vote properly. I'm not saying you have to know everything or be perfect...but you need the basic observation skills to ATTEMPT to know what is real, and to be able to reason the best educated guess you can...and we are far from even that. We have to get a grip on combating ignorance and delusion in our public, and teach them the skills they need to make good choices. I don't know if this is something that needs to happen in schools, or in media, or in community spaces, but it NEEDS to happen.