Post by @mycodesucks@lemmy.world

2026-11-03 21:56 UTC

He’s appealing to the huge swathes of the public who have absolutely NO idea how to actually identify intelligence. It’s actually difficult enough where the stupidest people can’t figure it out, and they use confidence, volume, wealth, and flowery language as a proxy. Even when you do get people to accept that information is an important part, ANOTHER huge swath of people don’t understand the difference between information and intelligence. In short, there’s a very small part of the population that can even IDENTIFY what an intelligent person looks like, so he gets away with this.

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@Gpennyhigh@lemmy.world 2026-11-03 22:31

Most are indoctrinated in dualistic thinking and kept that way and taught it’s dumb to learn, so they don’t try to learn more and advance to higher thinking levels. Maybe they get to both sides have some points, but then fall back to whatever their tribe says. They could choose to think critically, use Sagan’s baloney detection kit to weigh proven evidence to make real convictions, not just repeat the brainwashing, and remain open to new data. That’s what all adult and responsible voter should do. It’s not that hard, but so many prefer the tribal identity they cling to and crave and won’t leave it. They could vote one way and say another, since it’s no one’s business to ask anyway, or have integrity and stand up for liberty and justice for all.

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