“If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence.”
If voters are assumed rational, politicians will misjudge them; human cognition is driven by survival instincts, not pure logic, producing narratives that feel true but may be irrational.
In simple terms: Voters act on instinct, not pure logic.
Rationality is limited in political behavior.
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The claim may underplay the capacity for rational deliberation in informed electorates.
