America Has a Stupidity Crisis

America has plenty of problems and faces many challenges, but none is more daunting than the fact that many of our fellow citizens are freaking idiots. - Kurt Schlichter 

Now, let’s clarify exactly what we’re talking about here. 

We are talking about people who are unable to accumulate facts and evidence and then apply them meaningfully to basic rules or principles...

Now, there is a subtle distinction here that intelligent people will notice, which is that there is a difference between someone who is stupid and someone who is ignorant. 

• Someone who is stupid can’t know things, while 
• someone who is ignorant doesn’t know things...

The problem for our country is that the government we aspire to cannot function if too many of our citizens are freaking nitwits...