Yes they are that incredibly stupid. And yes they vote.
You know who else are incredibly stupid? Anyone who doesn’t vote, therefore empowering them, anyone who says that Democrats are the same as this orange parasite and the cancerous political party that props him up.
bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe is just another way of saying “I’m too lazy to do any homework, I’ll make an opinion based on what some Twitter posts tell me”.
Those Twitter posts are targeted at these idiots, they are designed to “divide and conquer”. And of course, they are too mindlessly lazy to figure this out, in fact they will forcefully reject this, as they give themselves permission to remain lazy. “I give myself a helluva lot of leeway, but this other thing I declare to be black & white with no shades in between. mUh PuRiTeH!”
I’m thinking about this a lot for the last couple of years but the average seems to be dropping faster each day. Not relevant to the topic, just an observation.
You know, when Christian Selig had to shut down Apollo and said it was going to be difficult to unexpectedly and immediately refund $250,000 in subscriptions, I wanted to support him for what he'd done for the community and to kinda stick a mental finger up at reddit. So I went and bought an Apollo t-shirt, and if I'd had a subscription I'd've considered declining the refund - despite the fact that Christian's current estimated net worth is more than I'll ever make in my entire lifetime. Because I'm angry at reddit and because Christian is perceived as having done a good thing, at least in the circles I hang around in.
Probably the same thing with people who donated to Trump.
Christian’s estimated net worth isn’t as much as you think. He was running a successful business with operating costs, it’s not like he had that much money in the bank. He may have raised $250,000 a year but it went to expenses, it’s not like he had that money all in his bank account at any one time. He had to shut down Apollo because Reddit asked for a million dollars up front in just a month and he couldn’t raise that much.
I understand that, but the same argument could be said for Trump: he has buildings and debts and a certain lack of liquidity as well. I mean, for very different reasons, but still a lack of liquid assets. I'm more than happy to buy a t-shirt and support Christian, which probably seems just as incomprehensible to some subset of Trump supporters as their Trump donations seems to me.
Those are very different circumstances. Selig probably could have raised a million dollars if his freedom relied on it, hell even I could do that. He couldn’t raise a million dollars to fund a business venture knowing it probably wouldn’t be viable as a continuing business due to new costs.
Much of that has to do with the US's high immigration rate, many of whom are not native English speakers. If you open the map your source links to and look at the lowest levels of literacy, they are primarily either places along the southern border, places that host a lot of migrant labor, (like California's central valley,) or impoverished regions of the country, (like parts of LA and MS.)
The population of recent immigrants cannot be anywhere near 50% of the total population. A more likely explanation is that a significant number of Americans are thick as mince. I hear the number is very similar in Europe.
No, I’d say its more impacted by America’s small town problem. The US is teaming with hundreds of thousands of small little podunk towns that were at their peak during the height of the manufacturing boom at the later half of the 20th century(you can see all the random little pockets of low literacy in each state in your linked map) . They have all gone to shit now since all manufacturing got shipped overseas and now they’re only being held together by ignorance and hatred (and also that one Mega Walmart). The majority of these small towns are populated by the same families that were there working the factory’s back in the day, no one moves in and very few ever move out. There is no incentive for the states or the federal government to help keep these slowly sinking towns afloat, seeing as their sole purpose for existing has long gone extinct. So because of this, these towns have struggled for decades to keep themselves afloat, they’ve had to make budgetary cuts over the years and usually the first thing that gets cut is education. So over time the average education level of the town reduces, leading to the whole reading issue.
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