Maybe in this way, I can relate a bit to republicans in this election: I don't think (and I do realize how patronizing this sounds/is ... which doesn't take away from my nevertheless observing it to be true) that they truly understood what it was they were choosing. They were trying to choose something not on offer. They were trying to choose against something that wasn't clearly labeled. And they ended up choosing what, under the sheep suit, was 'fuck everyone and also the planet.'
But it's hard to choose well when things are changing so fast and the future feels so unstable that we don't know what we will need, and also the choices themselves are obscured and mislabeled.