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it's interesting to observe that Democrats are not stepping up their efforts to sway voters and win gerymandered districts, but rather "play politics". There's a distinct vacuum in US politics where working class has been completely abandoned by republicans and democrats, where republicans are busy enriching themselvesband democrats are busy enriching rich donors who in turn shower democrats (with small exceptions) in kickbacks etc. Whoever seizes workers can have next election, but no politician seems to be interested. It really looks like Idiocracy v1.0 is in the works.
Idiocracy is already here. Watch anyone on TV speak, even news broadcasters. Then go back and watch the same kind of thing but from like the 60s. Even reality or talk television. These days everyone sounds like they barely have two brain cells to rub together. I watched an interview the other day of Hunter Thompson and a Hell’s Angel from the 60s and the literal biker gangbanger sounded more eloquent than professional broadcasters do now.
People have been aspiring to stupidity and denigrating intelligence for so long that everyone today sounds like an idiot. Most places I have ever worked at are run by people who are hardly competent enough to do the base jobs of the people they are managing. We have arguments about plainly illogical political issues that should have obvious answers if people had reasoning skills anymore. “Make other countries pay their fair share with tarrifs!!1!1” meanwhile tariffs are paid for by you and I, the consumer.
We are already so far balls deep into idiocracy that people are too stupid to even recognize how stupid they are. And thus the cycle will beget more and more stupidity, since there is no intelligence left to aspire to anymore…
Why try to educate MAGAts when they willfully ignore the obvious right in front of their eyes?