I asked AI this: Simple question? What is wrong with the average American voter? Your thoughts only. No MSM or outside sources.

Response: My view: there probably isn’t something uniquely “wrong” with the average American voter. The bigger problem is that ordinary human weaknesses collide with a political system that rewards them.

A few things stand out to me:

Too many people vote emotionally rather than analytically. Anger, fear, personality, tribal loyalty, and dislike of the other side can outweigh careful examination of policy and results.

Party identity becomes a substitute for thinking. Once someone decides “my side is good and their side is bad,” contradictory evidence gets rationalized away.

Short memories matter. People often react to what happened recently rather than looking at a politician’s full record over several years.

Most people don't have the time—or desire—to investigate deeply. They're working, raising families, paying bills, and dealing with life. Politics gets reduced to headlines, clips, slogans, and impressions.

People want simple explanations for complicated problems. Inflation, immigration, wars, deficits, healthcare, manufacturing, and energy policy are complicated. Political messaging turns them into sound bites.

Confirmation bias is powerful. People naturally seek information that reinforces what they already believe and dismiss information that threatens it. That affects conservatives, liberals, independents—everybody.

We often judge politicians differently depending on the jersey they're wearing. Conduct that infuriates someone when the opposing party does it suddenly becomes understandable when their own party does it.

But I think the biggest problem is this:

A large number of Americans have stopped asking, “Is this true, does it work, and what were the results?” and started asking, “Whose side is this person on?”

That is dangerous regardless of which party benefits from it.

An informed electorate doesn't need everyone to agree. In fact, disagreement is healthy. What it requires is people willing to question their own side as aggressively as they question the other side, separate personality from policy, remember what actually happened, and change their minds when the evidence warrants it.

That's a much harder kind of citizenship than simply voting Republican or Democrat every two or four years.