“It’s not that our liberal friends are ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan
When Reagan referred to “our liberal friends” he identified a segment of seriously misguided, under informed, self centered voters who make bad decisions in the voting booth. Today they’re increasingly known as low information voters.
How big is their impact? Last November over 61 million low information voters granted President Barack Kevorkian, four more years to practice voodoo medicine on their terminally ill economy. Clearly these Einsteins aren’t troubled by obscene debt and deficit numbers or painfully high unemployment.
Typically left of center, low information voters actually know very little about the issues but see their limited knowledge as encyclopedic. Health care is a good example.
LI voters almost achieve orgasm over ObamaCare yet few can explain, for example, the medical device tax and why this jobs killer is considered by the industry to be anti-technology. Explain it? They’ve never even heard of it.
Low information voters were willingly hoodwinked by the presidential canard that insuring another 30 million Americans under ObamaCare could be accomplished without increasing costs. That claim defies even simple logic but the President poured the Kool-Aid and the sycophants drank it. Now let’s see these nanny state proponents explain the Society of Actuaries (SAC) just released numbers showing a 32% cost increase for claims on individual health policies under ObamaCare.
Insurance rates are based on costs. That 32% will be passed on to consumers in the form of higher premiums. According to President Obama, costs were to go down under the Affordable Care Act, but the SAC report predicts double digit increases in most states. It outlines examples of higher costs by 2017 for individual coverage of 62% in California, 80% for Ohio & Wisconsin, over 20 % in Florida and 67% in Maryland. Oops! Up doesn’t seem like down to me.
Ask the low information voter to explain the rising numbers of private practise doctors closing up shop because they can’t cover expenses under reduced Medicare payouts.
Dr. Mark Seigel, Associate Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine, says a cardiologist who made $560 to read an echocardiogram will make $280 under ObamaCare. Sound like a good deal? Of course not, but when you’re addicted to the government teat, you tend not to sweat little things like how nothing is free or that government must first take before it can give. Low information voters never dig that deep.
Gay marriage and gun control are the latest causes spurring LI voters to action through emotion without knowledge. Pandering politicians mixed with media angst and hysteria quickly coalesced low information voters in a bellicose call to action on both fronts.
Telling the Deity He got it wrong on marriage and restricting rights to self-protection are not positions born of brilliance.
Last November’s presidential election revealed a troubling reality. Over 51% of voters thought it smarter not to reject failure but to embrace it.
That speaks directly to the intelligence quotient level of the low information voter.
Kaye Richard - When I Write I'm Right 
I truly missed your edgy articles and this one certainly fills that bill. I think one should pass a voters test before voting similar to getting a drivers license. This could never happen now in the culture we live in. Even Nancy Pelosi said ObamaCare had to be passed so we could find out what’s in it. You pass a bill that’s 15,000 pages long without reading it? What kind of people are we voting into office?????
Your last question says it all. The under informed, those who don’t see that liberalism is the foundation for most of societies ills, are now moving into the majority and have the power to further weaken our freedom, our self reliance and our ability to choose our individual destiny through their collective vote. The tyranny of government relies on the ignorance of the low information voter to survive. Conservatives have failed miserably to explain the political war that is underway and the cost to free men as socialism replaces capitalism. Greece and Cyprus are front page news and the low information voter still misses the obvious.
I couldn’t say it any better than that!
Very interesting article and can apply to so many other areas besides politics. People are like ostriches going about their lives with their heads buried in the sand. Blind and oblivious to what is going on they blindly follow one another over the proverbial cliff….while the shrewd and cold hearted make billions and live lavish lives at the expense of the uninformed blind ostrich like masses.
The people’s heads may be coming out of the sand very soon JoAnn. The Department of Homeland Security has made recent purchases of bullets totalling 1.6 billion. Heavily armoured MRAPs returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are reportedly being moved to various locations across the US. Many of them have been placed with law enforcement agencies. Congress has asked what is going on. Homeland Securiy Secretary Janet Napolitano has refused to tell them.