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buzzycrumbhunger

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26. Keep in mind that the "dumbing down" of America has been a right-wing project for YEARS...

Sun Dec 7, 2025, 03:38 PM

14 hrs ago

The Koch bros. et al instituted this eons ago. The Tea Party and everything that followed was scripted to create a population that was so stupid, gullible, and easy to control to enable their rise to power and the horrors we’re living in right now.

This idiocy was cultivated—the changing of educational goals, the reduced standards, derision toward any and all things intellectual--all of it. The right wing created a gullible monster and steered it into what MAGA is today, to the point they had an army of directable goons to do their will and put a cabal of monsters into power.

I highly recommend this read, which is free on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/pdfy-SYN9t0cHh1aFu8XV/mode/2up

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I cannot comprehend how people keep voting for Republicans. [View all] milestogo Saturday OP

Brainwashing from a young age to HATE anyone with a D behind their names. I live in the deep south. Ferrets are Cool Saturday #1

Their hatred is greater than their common sense. Polly Hennessey Saturday #2

Read the comments on Facebook posts about ICE CanonRay Saturday #3

Propaganda + ignorance x hate America 2025 31st Street Bridge Saturday #4

They like what's happening. It ain't that deep WhiskeyGrinder Saturday #5

Tribalism is a powerful drug. sop Saturday #6

Deep South ZDU Saturday #7

i frequently work outside orleans parish, in scalia country. rampartd Saturday #9

2 things: Botany Saturday #8

We also allowed these awful churches to preach politics from the pulpit, travelingthrulife Saturday #12

And those churches spread Russian produced misinformation all the time to such as anti vaccine and anti Botany Saturday #16

Many of them vote AGAINST Democrats and Liberals leftstreet Saturday #10

Cult NewHendoLib Saturday #11

Thank Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of the television Mysterian Saturday #13

They start voting because they are stupid, they keep voting because they are very very stupid. nt yaesu Saturday #14

There are some really really racist and stupid people in this country Johonny Saturday #15

I can. It's that same ol bluestarone Saturday #17

Racism, religion, and ignorance - Snarkoleptic Saturday #18

Bigotry and resentment towards others JI7 Saturday #19

I was visiting my husbands family in Arizona last week kimbutgar Saturday #20

A few reasons.... biocube Saturday #21

Tribalism. Sneederbunk Saturday #22

Republicans do understand it, they just don't give a damn and/or see it as a desirable characteristic. Silent Type Saturday #23

The mix of racism, anti-brown immigrants, RW religion, and don't forget sexism re Hillary, and Kamala, though... electric_blue68 Saturday #24

K&R Scott Alan Swaggerty 15 hrs ago #25

Keep in mind that the "dumbing down" of America has been a right-wing project for YEARS... buzzycrumbhunger 14 hrs ago #26

So a rich republican ( or a group of rich republicans) questionseverything 14 hrs ago #27

They're shitty people. Iggo 14 hrs ago #28

Between abortion and support for the poor, republicans and the media have branded us as evil socialist commies whatevers unblock 14 hrs ago #29

As most already said above, HATE, HATE, and B.See 14 hrs ago #30

WILFULL IGNORANCE Emile 14 hrs ago #31

seems the great majority of magats, imo, are STUPID PEOPLE (dumbfucks, uneducated, lowlifes) orleans 13 hrs ago #32

Some of them are brainwashed. milestogo 13 hrs ago #33

Come for the hate racism. Blame Dems for the consequences of their bad choices. usonian 13 hrs ago #34