Stunned? They paid perhaps too much attention to what some commies said they were owed and too little to what REALITY could deliver.
Intelligence in a population is on a bell curve. A fast food worker who is in high school may or may not be on the left side or less intelligent side, of that curve. One who is forty is probably way down somewhere on the left.
The reason we have Democrats is the left side of that curve. When those people vote they don’t think through what the outcomes of their vote might be.
I listened to an interview of a fast-food worker who was obviously in her forties complain, “how they ‘spect me to raise fo’ kids on this wage?” Well, probably you should be married in order to have the family and then you might be able to just bank the second wage. Doing better in school, which was free, BTW, would probably also help. That job was designed to be a kid’s starter job and nothing more.