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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.
My fine aviatorial cephalopoda, they have to put warning signs to not drink battery acid from your car and that hot coffee will scald you. There are people out there that intelligence is indeed the issue.
I think you need to look more closely at the McDonald's coffee incident. The warnings are there so that they no longer get sued for causing customers ridiculously bad burns. The battery acid one is like "keep out of reach of children." Again, a way to not get sued.
That is about American litigiousness, not intelligence.
I'm sorry, but suggesting that Americans are just stupid as if there's some sort of stupidity field you enter when you cross the border or it's some sort of genetic thing is silly. There are people of all levels of intelligence in the U.S., just like everywhere else.
Spoken like a man who's never worked fast food or retail.
I've literally worked both. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything.
They have those establishments in other countries and let me tell you, they complain about the same things Americans working those jobs do.
I understand the confusion, I meant a percentage of all people not just Americans.
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.