 Well, it's time for another patreon poll this week. I have a very interesting and possibly divisive question our most Americans stupid now I will tell you my feelings on this because I thought long and hard about this But first I want to go to what people are saying about this now keep in mind. This is obviously not a scientific poll It's a very small sample size But I still think that it's really interesting to hear from people and see what they have to say going into this poll I expected the results to be kind of mixed But to my surprise it was skewed heavily in one way with most of my patreon followers definitely saying Yeah, most Americans are indeed stupid So I asked to what extent do you agree slash disagree with the following statement most Americans are stupid So as you can see most people voted totally agree Seven people voted agree twelve people voted somewhat agree So that is most people saying that they agree at least somewhat one person saying I don't know and then we have five people saying totally disagree to Votes for disagree and zero votes for somewhat disagree now This is honestly surprising again very small sample size, but it's surprising because I didn't expect that much people to be That cynical but at the same time it's not surprising that people are cynical given the political climate So, um, yeah, I want to talk about this. I'll share my thoughts I do want to get to the comments first because I think that what people share here It really did influence the way that I would have voted here So Justin personally says if you have to ask dot dot dot Good point. Myles says I said totally disagree for two reasons First of all, the majority of the country is rational But our broken institutions electoral college gerrymandering representation in the Senate give the false impression that a much larger portion of the country Believe in insane Republican ideas Secondly, many kinds of powerful media particularly legacy media have successfully Propagandized a large portion of the country I don't feel like it's fair to call those people stupid when they were born and raised in such a bubble Adam Zaya says most Americans are ignorant rather than stupid Chris R says I don't think that Americans are stupid per se more like misinformed take my father for example He has an IQ of 140 one of the largest vocabularies of anybody I know graded mathematics, but believes our government is run by shape-shifting lizards. Holy shit Some of the craziest people are seriously smart on a constant quest for knowledge But come to the wrong conclusions Walid Dumuni says I'm an immigrant who has lived in three countries before coming to the United States Americans are no more or less stupid than other people around the world each nation has its own blind spots Which seems to another nation as being stupid, but in reality this kind of judgment is a blind spot in itself Kandee Sanada says I would say they are more uninformed than stupid the people know We are getting a raw deal but get distracted with culture war issues Yeah, so lots of really thoughtful comments here and there were more that I didn't share But people have a really nuanced take on this and I think that they ultimately came to the right conclusion In terms of how I would have voted I would have been the only person to vote somewhat disagree I don't feel strongly about this question either way instinctively. I would answer. Yeah, most Americans are stupid look around you I mean if you're gonna be susceptible to propaganda when you know propaganda is out there If you're gonna keep falling for these cults of personalities sure you may be uninformed But at some level you have to take responsibility for yourself, but ultimately I would vote Somewhat disagree. I don't think most Americans are stupid. That's not to say. I think there are no stupid Americans I mean Marjorie Green Lauren Boebert. These are two very stupid people in Congress elected by individuals who were likely very stupid I don't think that these people are just misinformed or you know misguided. I think they're actually stupid and when I say stupid I mean, I think they have a low IQ. I think that they should wear helmets when they leave the house I'm surprised that they haven't spontaneously died by forgetting to breathe So there are stupid people in America that being said, I don't think most people are Stupid I disagree somewhat But I'm a little bit I'm waving on this right I Go from somewhat agree to somewhat disagree So maybe I could be in the I don't know category as well, but for me. This is difficult because I think that you can Be very stupid at least when it comes to politics But that doesn't necessarily mean that you're stupid I mean one example we were talking about in the last patreon live chat was Ben Carson Ben Carson is a neurosurgeon and he is I mean if you listen to the way he talks about politics He sounds like a fucking moron. So to know that that person is also a world-renowned neurosurgeon I mean you can't be stupid if you're a neurosurgeon, but at the same time your politics is dumb So even if you are stupid politically that doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be dumb overall Because I think that if you are an architect, for example, if you are an engineer Well, you're pretty smart, right? You at least have some capacity to think critically seemingly So just because you have bad politics, it doesn't mean that you're stupid overall But I think it is important to know that people do easily get misinformed people get let astray Really really easily and that is a problem that does kind of lead me to air towards somewhat agree But ultimately I don't agree now one thing that initially got me thinking I agree that most Americans are stupid it's because we keep electing people who are not looking out for our best interests and It's frustrating even if most Americans have Somewhat good instincts they agree with progressives and leftists on policy when you look at the polls Well, they keep voting for either Republicans or neoliberal Democrats So there's a disconnect there, right and it's nuanced. It's not just a well You say you support Medicare for all or raising the minimum wage, but you vote for politicians who don't support it That means you're stupid. It's yeah, I support a $15 an hour minimum wage But this culture war issue is more important to me. It's you know, the $15 an hour minimum wage is less salient to me than CRT because I don't want my kids to be taught that White people are bad because that's what I think the CRT is so it's it's complicated, right? But ultimately I am in going to thwart my cynical instinct and move away from agree And I'm ultimately going to land in the camp of somewhat disagree Because again people are complicated You know, it's think of politics as one separate portion of our lives It's hard to disaggregate politics because it affects virtually every aspect of your life But you have to do that because people don't necessarily put two and two together like that people are Different some people will think well, you know what? I'm a Republican because Republicans are looking out for my best interests and that might be stupid But they could be a fucking. I don't know brain surgeon who knows right, but the point is that people are very Different in the way that they think about things in the way that they view the world it's also going to come down to their experience and Point of privilege for them what they care more or less about So ultimately I I don't think that most Americans are stupid But that doesn't mean that I don't think there are stupid Americans because there are some people who are honestly too far gone and really really fucking stupid and One way one thing that I was thinking about as I was pondering, you know, how I would answer in this poll if I were to vote is How much does me doing the human support skew my worldview because five six years ago I would have said totally disagree Americans are not stupid they're rational they make decisions that are bad for them But it's still it comes from a place of ration rationale where they think okay This is best for me. They're not just like doing things that they that are knowingly going to hurt them But over time, you know, when you cover the worst of the worst when you talk about Lauren Boeber It's in the Marjorie greens of the world and anti-vaxxers consistently you kind of warped your own worldview So I wonder how much of that has skewed my take on this and and made me more cynical But ultimately when I really think long and hard about this I always land on the place of disagree now, you know That could change who knows but for now, you know, I think that I Somewhat disagree but a lot of people don't agree with that They agree for the most part that most Americans are stupid So yeah, honestly, I'm curious to know what you think in the comment section. Do you think most Americans are stupid again? Remember most Americans not all Americans. I don't think it's a specific American thing I think there are elements about our culture and society. That's really stupid that we embrace But again, where people aren't monolithic people are unique people are complicated. So ultimately I would say we're not stupid prove me right brain ideas recovery mode my brain ideas