They're only dummies because the education establishment stopped teaching the basics decades ago. You can see the results of that, here, and on other websites, daily.
Thank God I was born into an Army family, and got a proper basic education.
I grew up in a small southern town during the sixties. Population of less than 6,000 with two high schools. One white, the other black. Blacks graduated and went on to college. Now the town is less than 4,000 and 80% are black. The school is about to be taken over by the state.
Blacks who remember the old days say they’d like to go back to the way it was. I know a white gentleman who was big into civil rights. He’s retired from the education system. He says the solution is to go back to segregation.