Rich Americans. You know the saying, "there are two kinds of MAGA voters, morons and billionaires. Please check your bank account to see which you are."
It's indeed quite amazing how they managed to brainwash a huge part of the population to permanently abandon all values, to continually vote against their own best interests, making them poorer and poorer, destroying the environment, taking away rights, freedoms and social security.
You wonder why everyone who observes Republicans from the outside of their bubble thinks they are morons? Because that's objectively measurable reality.
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Conservatism and cognitive ability are negatively correlated. The evidence is based on 1254 community college students and 1600 foreign students seeking entry to United States' universities. At the individual level of analysis, conservatism scores correlate negatively with SAT, Vocabulary, and Analogy test scores. At the national level of analysis, conservatism scores correlate negatively with measures of education (e.g., gross enrollment at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels) and performance on mathematics and reading assessments from the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) project. They also correlate with components of the Failed States Index and several other measures of economic and political development of nations. Conservatism scores have higher correlations with economic and political measures than estimated IQ scores."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289609000051This isn't exactly news.
“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives...
I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it. Suppose any party, in addition to whatever share it may possess of the ability of the community, has nearly the whole of its stupidity, that party must, by the law of its constitution, be the stupidest party; and I do not see why honorable gentlemen should see that position as at all offensive to them, for it ensures their being always an extremely powerful party . . . There is so much dense, solid force in sheer stupidity, that any body of able men with that force pressing behind them may ensure victory in many a struggle, and many a victory the Conservative party has gained through that power."
John Stuart Mill ( British philosopher, economist, and liberal member of Parliament for Westminster from 1865 to 68 )
And Republicans aren't just regular old conservatives anymore, they have long since become a malicious caricature, bordering on insanity.
