For over half a century of my life, I had always thought that everyone else had the same intelligence, logic and reasoning capability that I did. Naturally, I knew there were some gross retards, but I went through life believing that everyone else was the same as me-- or at least that I was no different/better than anyone else.
Then one night I was watching a comedy show on teevee. It was Gallagher, the comedian, who I have found to be a pretty astute observer of mankind and its foibles. At one point in the show, he pointed out something that has enlightened my life immensely. He said:
"Remember, intelligence is distributed on the bell curve. At any point in time, 50% of the people walking past you are morons."
I had minored in Psych in college, so I was very familiar with bell curve distributions, means, medians, standard deviations, etc. But what he pointed out was an epiphany to me.
And he is correct. 50% of the population is sub-100 IQ, below average, sub-par, i.e., morons. And they are propagating their sub-par progeny at a greater rate than those above average.
And we are letting them vote and determine the fate of our country...
Maroons!
Sub-par, yes, but not morons. A moron was traditionally a person with an IQ between 51 and 70. Less than 50% have IQs that low.