Yeah a lot of the world thinks we’re proud to be stupid but reality is we’re uneducated but told we’re geniuses.
Like not in the Mr Rogers “have self worth and believe in yourself” ways but in “Murican are smarter and tougher than any of those foreigners and our country is better because we’re free here and other places have rules and they steal from you” and when you do that to literal children for their whole lives then it’s hard to crack the programming; their fucking neurons grew in that way.
the most accurate possible statement of average us political participant
A lot of us here can’t help that we were educated stupid
Yeah a lot of the world thinks we’re proud to be stupid but reality is we’re uneducated but told we’re geniuses.
Like not in the Mr Rogers “have self worth and believe in yourself” ways but in “Murican are smarter and tougher than any of those foreigners and our country is better because we’re free here and other places have rules and they steal from you” and when you do that to literal children for their whole lives then it’s hard to crack the programming; their fucking neurons grew in that way.
And have never travelled internationally so they can see with their own eyes that other countries have it much better.