Often time in the US, we tell people that it's important to go out and vote - that you should exercise your civic duty, or repay society, or it's important to exercise it since so many have fought and died for your right to vote.
Sometimes these people who otherwise wouldn't vote say something like "Well, I don't really know anything; I don't know about the candidates, or the issues, or their policies." And sometimes despite this people say, "Well it doesn't matter that you don't know anything; you should go vote anyway."
I've always felt like that was a mistake, and so I'm happy to see Norm also (implicitly) advocating that stance. You shouldn't vote if you're not at least somewhat informed. Because what if you vote for something awful? By yourself, you're not likely to do anything like that, but if many people ignorantly vote that same way, then it's certainly possible. Perhaps someone in the UK might argue that's what happened with Brexit this year.
So, I wanted to share it.
Smart man