Disturbing ...
Equally as disturbing: half the population is below average. Idiots: They walk among us. And they vote.
“Equally as disturbing: half the population is below average. Idiots: They walk among us. And they vote.”
It seems that from observable every day life that yes, maybe around half the folks seem to be flakes and dim bulbs.
But the disturbing things are that maybe the only reason we aren’t farther along in social and cultural decline is because of the folks that don’t bother to vote who are eligible. I suspect that if more bothered to vote it would only raise the ‘swing vote’ as a %. And what that would do is make it even more of a crap shoot, becoming much more random based on whatever ever either candidate could do to sway the dumbest.
So maybe if we had higher turn out, like say 85% for the last 100 years, we would either be living in conservative utopia or liberal dystopia. But in either case it wasn’t because the smartest folks had acted on their considered opinions, but because the absolute dumbest could be swayed one way or another. Like flipping a coin 5 times and getting heads each time. Pretty grim stuff.
Maybe you can’t get around this in human society when everyone’s vote is the same.
Freegards