I suspect that Biden supporters can’t read.
Back in the late 90s I worked with a woman who was a very smart engineer. Really impressive. At one point she said, "I don't get it. It seems like a lot of people don't like Bill Clinton. Like he's some sort of sleazy guy. What's up with that?"
So I started to explain few things about Bill Clinton, Juanita Broaddrick, Monica Lewinsky, etc. But I didn't get very far. The engineer I was speaking with held up both her hands and said, "I don't want to know. I live in a nice world where none of that stuff happens. I'm fine. Sorry I asked."
Smart but not wise.
There are people that vote for AOC and the rest of the squat. So that shows the stupidity of the voters. But we are also seeing how institutions like Harvard are being ruined because of a liberal philosophy and that philosophy is spreading throughout the country and will destroy this country. Nikita Kruschev was right.
“...perhaps, I’m wrong and the average I.Q. in America hasn’t decreased to -50...”
The predominant Rat constituency is in places like Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Detroit, Memphis, Atlanta, New Orleans, etc.
Check the IQ of the inhabitants, you will find the answer. It’s also why those cities are run to the ground. Same thing is happening to the federal government.
When you import the third world, you become the third world. /spit
This is equally on both the left and right. And It is more like inside a concrete box than inside a bubble.
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The problem is where people get their news: Facebook, Tik-Tok, Twitter/X, Yahoo, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, etc.
I think part of it is that they are dedicated to their partisan view of the world to the extent that they cannot disengage from their party leaders no matter what. They have a Gay kid, for example. They feel that Christians disapprove of Gay Sex and therefore (in their mind, Gay people) and thus condemn Christianity entirely and all associated with it. The Right also does not facilitate homosexuals being a special protected class and therefore everything about the Right is condemned. Once that alignment is made, their people must be forgiven every failure as to not do so is to support the opposition in their small world.
People who are really into politics tend to listen to what they want to hear. It tends to make them ignorant and prone to believe lies that sound good to them. TwitterX has become the home of “This is true until it isn’t”. You have to be skeptical.
If you live in a bubble it doesn’t matter what the bubble is, bubbles make you dumb. Intelligence comes from checking out other parts of the world, growing, learning.
“Is the Bubble You Live In Making You Dumb?”
It isn’t making me dumb. My knowledge, wisdom and experiences should be gobbled up by todays youth. If they don’t know how to find those resources and listen up, it’s on them.
“...idiocracy is now the normal state in America.”
Has been since President Reagan until President in Exile Trump. ;)
Writer has it wrong. The voters who will vote for Biden are addicted to Mommy Government and that’s what he represents. Nothing Joe does or doesn’t do matters to them as long as he promises a few more goodies are coming, and more important, that no goodies will be taken away.
It’s not just the low-IQ types. Hang around Harvard (my sister-in-law still lives in Cambridge. I left 45 years ago), and you will hear the same pro-Biden BS in the mouths of multi-PhD professors. Even SIL spouts this stuff, because she’s “in the bubble”. Ex-BU-prof herself, never reads anything, listens to NPR, watches PBS, gets her opinions at Starbucks.
How many people can read for comprehension, think critically, write well, can practice the skill of discernment, etc?
How many people read books, articles, etc that -challenge- their worldview or positions?
I suspect the answer to the questions above is - not as many as we think.
And that results in people just not reading about differing or conflicting viewpoints, or depending on the issue people resorting to name-calling (e.g. "$hot $hills" re: COVID-19). I suppose that's the sign of a lazy or even weak intellect.
I want to read books and listen to speakers that challenge me. The used book section at Barnes & Noble is great for buying books that can help accomplish this. Often the books are unread or read once.
An example of being able to read differing viewpoints and come away with useful insights is AJ Thomas is his Dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644. He cited a book (What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America 19 (2009) by Peggy Pascoe, who was a strong advocate of critical race and gender theory.
AJ Thomas is not an advocate of race or gender theory, but does practice the art of discernment, when he used Pascoe's book to bolster his writing when he started to make the point "The suggestion of petitioners and their amici that antimiscegenation laws are akin to laws defining marriage as between one man and one woman is both offensive and inaccurate..."