At this point, I am disassociating myself from people who voted for Trump.

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34. Once, I was optimistic.

I figured there was hope for these people. They were just misled and misinformed. I no longer think that's the case.

I think the majority are completely and irreparably stupid. They've no ambition and no curiosity. Hand them a beer and sit them down in front Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and they're living in their own private Xanadu.

There's a smaller segment who are moderately intelligent. That is, they are curious and have the ambition to learn. The problem with them is that they present an overabundance of opinion or a deficit of discipline, and rather than using their intelligence to follow fact to it's conclusion, instead twist the evidence to validate their preconceptions. This would be the libertarian/conspiracy theory crowd.

It's no accident governments have, since the dawn of time, feared entrusting too much power to the masses. They're impassioned, fickle, and most frighteningly, completely intellectually unprepared to assess most civic issues, let alone decide on proposed solutions.