On A Scale Of One To Ten How Close Are We To Idiocracy?

[DanieRains]

1 is nowhere.

10 is just like the movie.

?

[ret5hd]

1. Does the fact that your question is relevant give a clue to the answer?

[TheBlackAdder]

17. Huh? Numbers go higher than 5?

[lagomorph777]

21. Heee!

[3catwoman3]

2. 15...

..and rising fast.

[irisblue]

3. +13

[htuttle]

4. I like money

[lagomorph777]

22. I like beer.

and sex.

[unc70]

5. Giraffe

[Arkansas Granny]

6. We passed 10 when Trump was elected. It's off the scale now.

[kimbutgar]

7. Idiocracy is a documentary now and we're at 20

[maxsolomon]

8. If you ever see the shirts that professional bowlers wear, it's close

to the clothes everyone wears in the future.

We're at about 7. People still drink water.

[Initech]

9. Realistically I'd say we're at an 8.5.

We have a long way to go before Monster Energy Drink replaces water and we've all got children named after products. But we might be headed that way.

[Maru Kitteh]

10. 12

[Aristus]

11. One important thing to remember about President Camacho in 'Idiocracy'.

Yeah, he was a vulgar dolt, but he knew there was a problem, and he knew he needed someone smart to solve it.

That's the kind of enlightened, progressive thinking Trump could never be capable of in a million years; or even five hundred years.

[lunatica]

12. Well if you substitute Browndo with Kool Aid

We’re pretty damn close. Too close for comfort.

[gibraltar72]

13. On the other side of it.

[sir pball]

14. We're at Ow, My Balls nt

[maxrandb]

15. We're so far beyond Idiocracy

that we have now smashed through the mirror and are using the broken shards to slit our wrists.

[GoCubsGo]

16. "Idiocracy" is in the rearview mirror. nt

[sarcasmo]

18. Not Sure

[trof]

19. We're there.

[lame54]

20. I like their president better

[Caliman73]

23. The real problem is that there is very little trust in the institutions of the nation.

It isn't that people are stupid like Idiocracy. It is that people have no confidence or trust that government can or will help them. The bedrocks of our system of government have began to crumble and the institutions that we trusted, would prevent a person like Trump from becoming president have shown their fragility.

I don't know how this situation gets remedied when you have one political party that continues to aid and abet an absolutely unfit president to continue to erode trust in society. The other party, though willing and trying to help, is rendered relatively powerless and unable to contain the excesses of the unfit idiot in the White House.

We aren't really losing intelligence but we are losing the ability to see government as a tool to help people and to me, that is way worse than what was portrayed on Idiocracy.

[GeorgeGist]

24. We were admitted 3 year ago.