most people I know vote on the issues
Here's how people actually vote:
1) Your either left or right politically
2) You adopt the positions of your party or political leanings the majority of the time without much thought
3) You then seek out information from your preffered biased sources to justify a position on an issue you know nothing about
4) But you never actually give a shět if the issue is achieved and never check up on it again (notice Trumps base doesn't care he failed to build the wall)
^^ Pretty much. This is the not-so-secret secret of the American electorate, and it's something a lot of people not only disagree with but sometimes find objectionable. They can't handle that elections are driven by legions of dumb people and partisan zombies who will do whatever it takes to rationalize their pre-determined choices.
I think there are exceptions - anything involving people will have many exceptions, but this explains most of the behavior.
This is a decent article that touches on the issue somewhat:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/opinion/trump-republicans.htmlUnfortunately it really is that simple for many, many people.
No offense to OSR, but I'm going to take the studies, polls and general behavior of elections on a macroscopic view to his anecdotal evidence - evidence that he could just as easily have misinterpreted
(who is to say these people wouldn't have rationalized their choices a differently in another context?). I think it's fair to say that OSR fits into the category of people who may take umbrage with the idea that people on a mass scale really don't make good, objective and sound decisions.
