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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
"Since the 1950s, economists and political scientists have known that it is actually rational for voters to be ignorant, because the chance that any one voter will have a significant impact on the outcome of an election is infinitesmally small. There is little incentive to spend time and effort acquiring knowledge about politics that won't make any difference to political outcomes anyway."
It is rational to not bother because whoever's in office makes little difference.
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The quote above has to to with the marginal value of a single voter's vote, not the difference in the candidates.
