I agree with you as to the competence of the electorate. Actually much of the electorate is not only "uninformed!" Many have been effectively bought by a corrupt system that allows people to vote without regard to obvious conflicts of interest. Many others are simply incompetent; and are allowed to vote only because of the Alice & Wonderland fantasy world, which presumes that humans are basically interchangeable. And, indeed, many of the bribed, also reflect the fantasy which pretends that they even understand the functions of the offices for which they are voting.
Do they really?
We had popular Government from 1776. No one is attacking the idea, now--certainly not I. But we did not make the idea of universal suffrage any type of goal until the 1820s. It is time we reconsidered the merits of that latter "goal." It has none.
William Flax
Many have been effectively bought by a corrupt system that allows people to vote without regard to obvious conflicts of interest. Agreed.
As I have said for many years, the problem the Republicans have is they run against people whose appeal to the electorate is: "Vote for me and I'll get you someone else's money." And they do just that. -tom