It’s been the calculated plan for far longer than I can remember.
Conservative politics relies on stupid uneducated voters incapable of critical thinking.
The voters that, with a lack of actual knowledge of their own through either experience, formal education or even just good old fashioned intellectual curiosity about the world around them, will happily cede their opinion to the first authority figure who tells them what they are already presdisposed to believe and confirm their biases.
It’s the entire reason there has been a coordinated attack on the liberal arts and college education under the guise of “financial constraints” and the push in the last few decades towards trade schools.
Conservative politics requires stupid who are content to learn how to be a tradesman, without any of that inconventient history or critical thinking getting in the way.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Think of how stupid the average person is
Half of em are dumber than that
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
RIP St George
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
We need him now more than ever. He’d happily carry our disdain.
KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 11 hours ago
If stupidity has a symmetric distribution.