The lack of a truly educated, informed citizenry results in ignorance, crass emotionalism and absurd political behavior. It is truly frightening how little history most Americans know and how easily the muddled middle, who determine elections and ultimately the fate of a culture are manipulated by nonsense.
If it is true that swing voters decide every election, then we really are ruled by the dumbest who somehow still manage to vote based on who can sway them that political cycle. The ones that vote that can’t articulately express a rational political philosophy that guides them, but who vote on things like appearance or who the media said was a better debater. Supposedly they are around 10% of eligible voters that deign to vote.
Freegards
Reminds me of Cyril Kornbluth’s SF classic “The Marching Morons.” He envisoned the world far in the future. He was an optimist. The year 9-B-936 arrived some years ago.