Why are so many Americans acting so stupid?

[PatrickforB]

41. This is why the right wing has encouraged the creationist fanatics

to pollute school curriculum with creationism as an 'alternative' to science, why they encourage the voucherists to lobby the rerouting of funding to 'christian' schools, why they encourage the krazy kluxers to wash down the curriculum in TX, because as TX goes, so goes the nation in terms of watered-down textbooks. And now, here in COVID-world, we have crazy Q parents being encouraged to show at school board meetings protesting mask mandates.

So....................cui bono?

The OLIGARCHS, of course. While businesses claim to want people who can think critically, reason and calculate at high levels, have great communication skills, and are readily able to troubleshoot, the OLIGARCHS, at the same time want a stupid, ignorant, docile population that is confused, does not know truth from falsehood, and thinks government is the problem.