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and people eat it up
I'm continuously baffled and horrified by how low average intelligence actually is. And I discover new depths in different ways every day. I used to consider myself below average to average intelligence, depending on what's being measured. Or I suppose I still could be below average, I just had no idea how absolutely stupid people can be. I've had conversations with children that have more critical thinking skills than the political talk I witness.
I don't think it is even an intelligence issue. I think you hit the nail on the head with the last sentence: Americans are not taught to think critically. That is a skill you have to be taught and once taught, you have to exercise it. And the latter isn't happening because most schools don't do the former.
You can be very smart, but without that skill in your tool belt, it doesn't matter in many situations. Especially not with politics.
And I think it explains why there are so many evangelicals in the engineering field. They aren't stupid people, they just don't know how to think critically and they are in a field where they don't necessarily have to but can still use their intelligence.
Most of the people in my immediate family hate trump and voted for him anyways because he was still the best option. Plenty of people know what a terrible person/hypocrite he is. It's not about misinformation or intelligence, most people in the country agreed with him more than Kamala. I'm just glad we won't have to see him again in 4 years other than a lone speech here and there.