I mean… here comes two cents worth of priceless to be layed face down upon the pavement and passively dismissed by disinterested eyes … 2024 shall see the first US election since I became voter eligible (1996) to boast the following characteristics:

• Being politically misinformed is tantamount to voting against your own interests (historically one may have been misinformed with their vote unimpacted… the dual reality inversion breaks this).
• Being politically uninformed leaves you vulnerable (as it has always done) to gut-voting against your own interests.

where voting against one’s own interests carries the following characteristics, itself, for the first time since I became voter eligible:

• Successfully voting against your own interests will make your life noticeably worse short term.
• Successfully voting against your own interests will fuck your legacy up long term, forcing your children’s generation to redirect their efforts away from progress into national trauma recovery.
• Successfully voting against your own interests could feasibly contribute to constitutional collapse and uncivil war.