Trump’s election finally drove this home for me: Humans are idiots.
Did we really expect Americans to vote rationally? Only 19% of these idiots (Americans) believe in secular evolution (I doubt the statistic is much different in other countries). People believe what they want to believe (as that statistic clearly indicates), and no amount of facts, evidence, logic or reason will ever change that. One must be (I was) a chump to even try to reason with humans. You want to change somebody’s mind? Do what trump did. Do what the right-wing noise machine has been doing for decades. Lie. Manipulate. Trick. Misdirect. Use innuendo. Brainwash. Appeal to their basest, most primitive instincts. I refuse to do that, and I know reason won’t work, so I’m through trying to convince anybody of anything.
Humans, even most of the “smart” ones, are idiots, and reasoning with them won’t work.
