This attitude that everyone who isn't a democrat is an idiot redneck is part of the reason why Trump won.
That's not really what the article was saying. They specifically mentioned political literacy, and quite frankly, at least based on the tons of people I talked to while canvassing last year, I don't know if I can disagree. I heard a lot of crazy stuff / completely wrong statements from people of both parties. And it's not even just about people who pay attention but don't "get it," it's also about people who have no problem forming strong opinions but pay little attention to politics, which makes no sense to me. If you're going to have an opinion about something, you ought to know if its true or not, and that requires some research.
Oh I don't disagree with you, I was responding more to some of the comments in the thread than the article. I don't think it's one sided though, most voters of all stripes are pretty uninformed unfortunately.
