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(06-20-2017, 10:42 AM)Benton Wrote: I don't know if it's that easy.

A lot of people — college educated, high school dropouts, nice guys, racists, homosexuals, ***** sapiens — voted for Trump. Not as many as voted for Clinton but enough to win in our "second place is close enough to succeed" society. I think people in general are just becoming more and more out of touch. And dumber in general.

Anecdotal observation, but stroll through Facebook. I noticed someone the other day with a meme about how if you're abducted, put your PIN number in backwards and it alerts the police when you use an ATM. The function (according to the meme) is mandatory on all ATMs. It's false. It's the kind of stupid misinformation that gets people hurt. I rarely respond to that kind of thing, but I googled the snopes article and linked it. The next day, the same person who posted it liked the same misinformation meme on a mutual friend's page.

I don't know if society is just snowballing with stupid or if some unscrupulous world power is out there determined to overthrow America by making it a culture of uninformed, gullible idiots, but either way we're stepping ever closer to Idiocracy.

There was an internet myth going around recently that News stood for Noteworthy Events Weather Sports. I kid you not, I argued with people for hours who were both amazed they never knew this but adamant it was true because it was all over the internet. In case anyone is wondering, that isn't true.

The general populist as a whole is gullible and unwilling to vet the information they hear because it is easier to accept it as true.