the Gods themselves contend in vain.

"Stupid" can't be fixed ... it is a willful thing. However, the vast majority of these people aren't "stupid" so much as ignorant and woefully misinformed.

I don't like labeling poor working class people as "stupid". The truly stupid, are the demagogues who actively mislead them.

I find the ease with which people refer to the 'underclasses' as stupid to be nausea-inducing.

I have real problems "blaming" folks, whose energies and resources are focused on survival issues stupid just because they do not spend hours, daily, on-line in order to tease out which olitical lines are, and are not, supportive of their interests.

But the vast majority of those working class folks being called stupid are not willfully ignorant ... they lack access to understandable information and/or lack the resources, i.e., time and energy, to seek out that information.

as the vast majority of the uninformed move with the crowd. Given time ... the uninformed will sign up, as more and more of those around them get signed up.

I realize everything must happen yesterday; but social change is not a sprint (though the sprinters get all the attention), it is a marathon, where the route frequently changes.

If anyone "can't" do it, it's Congress!

They won't stay that way. These people are going to be thoroughly pissed when they catch on. The local hardware store is going to see a run on tar and feathers. I can't wait.

willfully ignorant which is stupid.

Reagan comes to mind.