Things I think make people idiots include:
Failure to recognise bullshit (e.g. bendy bananas, red tape, undemocratic unelected bEUROcrats, Soros, the EU army, the NWO)
Believing obvious bullshit (see above, also religion, money, climate denial, flat Earth, etc)
Acting on bullshit beliefs (voting to leave the EU, voting for the Conservatives/UKIP/TBP/BNP/NF, sending money to Nigel Farage for any reason)
I hear there are sensible people who voted for Brexit all the time, but when you start to investigate these claims they all fall apart. Sensible people do not knowingly vote to make themselves poorer, more isolated, and less safe, so they must have done so unwittingly. Unwittingly acting against your better interests is not smart. Being theoretically smart but idiotic in practice makes you more of an idiot, not less.
That said, realising you were once an idiot makes you smart. That is the only route back to sanity for the 52%, imo.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2020, 19:29, Reply)