>Voting choices in the US are much like religion choices and football team choices
This is only true because people fail to vote (or even pay attention) in the primaries.
By the time you get to the general election you get two terrible choices produced by the establishment. The result is that there is no difference between the two party candidates. Sure they're made to sound different, but policy and execution is the same.
This is only true because people fail to vote (or even pay attention) in the primaries
... which is only true because they don't really care who the candidate is as long as they have the R or D after their name.
More than most people want to think about problems and their solutions, they want to feel like they belong to a family, a tribe, a team, or an organized religion.
Like most people who vote have any understanding of what the government does or much less what the consequences of those actions are.
Voting choices in the US are much like religion choices and football team choices -- nonsensical tribalism at its finest.