I think that most of the people who have been featured here shared the same propensity for being stupid because they all believed the same crap that got them dead.
Officially it's called the Dunning-Kruger effect and it appears to be widespread.
The following article (which I believe is supposed to be satire, but really isn't) outlines the 5 universal laws of human stupidity, all of which we have seen demonstrated by these utterly stupid people.
The stupid, in comparison, are paragons of consistency, acting at all times with unyielding idiocy.
How many people do you know who qualify? I know a couple. I'm surprised they've survived adulthood to honest. One of them being my former brother in law, a man so stupid I'm stunned to know he still breathes.
or, my IGNORANCE is just as important as your knowledge....
The scale of the problem facing us should now be obvious. When we have around half the country unable to understand or comprehend basic facts and concepts, we’re fucked.
But wait, there’s more. We also have grown and raised a large population of morally bankrupt grifters, liars, frauds, and cheats who found they can make bank, steal power, and pervert democracy for their own gain. They push the stupid into counterproductive positions that benefit them to the detriment of society and the common good.
There’s also the social media fucktards who profit from allowing misinformation and hate to reproduce and spread geometrically because it’s extremely profitable because it attracts users like a magnet.
And the cherry on this parfait of crap is that hostile foreign governments exploit every possible weakness to drive us into internal conflicts, chaos, paralysis, and distraction from all the other issues that threaten us.
We’ve let ignorance, stupidity, greed, and the pursuit of power turn this country into a pile of crap that doesn’t have an optimistic future.
No idea how to fix it.
Quote from Cippola's "Five Laws" -
"We can do nothing about the stupid. The difference between societies that collapse under the weight of their stupid citizens and those who transcend them are the makeup of the non-stupid. Those progressing in spite of their stupid possess a high proportion of people acting intelligently, those who counterbalance the stupid’s losses by bringing about gains for themselves and their fellows.
Declining societies have the same percentage of stupid people as successful ones. But they also have high percentages of helpless people and, Cipolla writes, “an alarming proliferation of the bandits with overtones of stupidity.”
“Such change in the composition of the non-stupid population inevitably strengthens the destructive power of the [stupid] fraction and makes decline a certainty,” Cipolla concludes. “And the country goes to Hell.”
Perhaps Universal laws of stupidity are revealed in these TODAY SHOW interviews.
It's somewhat obvious who the stupid are...or who promotes stupidity. The Neocons, Q, fox news Trump etc.
For the right, 'Doors are the cause of American Gun Shootings: Stupid
Does this lead us to consider that the notion stated in the 'Declaration of Independence" is false and hypocritical?
These are disingenuous noble-sounding words, perhaps designed to lay a misleading foundation. These words were written by White men, no doubt all xtians, who were slaveholders, slave traders, and squatting on lands recently being stolen from the indigenous. Premeditated plans to expand that land base by continuing their genocidal practices existed. Through the general consensus of what came to be known as Manifest Destiny did the dispossession of self, lands, and liberty of the indigenous become national policy and practice. These practices were stupid and beyond stupid inflicting harm and legitimizing "Crimes against humanity"