Don’t you have it exactly backwards?
Aren’t the idiots the ones who allow themselves to be deceived, taken advantage of and robbed by their own political leaders?
Are you able to arrange the commonly shared symbols of meaning in such a way which even minimally defends your assertion that citizens should allow the perpetual existence of a permanent political class?
Aren’t the idiots the ones who embrace an ideology which by its very nature cannot survive exposure to the light of truth?
You know the whole liberal line of thought that says Christianity would collapse if aliens landed on the White House lawn?
What we see here is a real version of that playing out. The aliens of truth, the fact that the Cantors/Mitches ect are utter frauds, and Democrats with no D, has caused the life’s belief of the politically faithful to collapse.
But they cannot admit it without their entire belief structure collapsing with it. They are too invested in it. So we get the stages of grief. Anger, bargaining...all of it.
Anything but simply admitting the truth slapping them silly by the day, the hour even, and dealing with it accordingly.