In some countries parties put up a platform of policies before an election, voters learn about each party platform and vote based on the policies they agree with most.

If people actually did the most basic of research about what each party intends to do (and how they have historically behaved when elected) rather than making everything a personality contest, then just maybe they’d get representation that puts forward policies they believe in.

And before anyone claims it: no “the opposite of $otherTeam” isn’t a policy platform and neither is “own the $ideologyNickname”