Maybe the American Electorate Is Stupid

For years I have said I don’t think the mass of Americans are stupid, but they are ignorant.  I meant that I thought most people were intelligent, but few actually bothered to gather facts and do an analysis for themselves.  This election may have changed my mind.  I am in Texas where I see constant billboards for that completely vapid and weird Talarico.  Billboards that say “Talarico wants to lower costs”.  Is there a politician that doesn’t?  One says Talarico “will protect health care”.   Is there any politician who won’t say that?  And what does he mean–is he going to protect the providers who are responsible for high and growing spending–drug companies, huge hospital systems?  I have looked at  whatever I can find, and there are no specifics, in fact Talarico was a master at never giving any actual proposal to back up any of this sloganeering.  As I noted yesterday, the Dems are completely clueless and completely responsible when it comes to the affordability issue in general.  Talarico will eagerly join in any new Dem taxes and will eagerly vote for new regulations that make everything even less affordable for Americans.

So I have to conclude that most Americans in fact aren’t very smart, if they are taken in by this kind of superficial blather after all the evidence of what Dem policies do.  And then there are Minnesota voters, in their own special category of masochistic delusionists.  Minnesotans apparently like to be taxed on everything at the highest rate in the nation and see most of those tax dollars go to fraud and waste while every public service declines.  Now we have a legislature full of  literal morons who can’t wait to do even more damage to the state’s economy.  It is a great time to be alive.