Stupid Lasts Forever

Ancient Athenian comic playwright Aristophanes made a good point here, and it would be easy to ascribe this as an explanation of the support of Donald Trump.

Giving the matter a little thought, however, we see that Americans’ IQs haven’t fallen over the last 10 years.   The answer must be found elsewhere.

My theory is that hate and stupidity have the capacity to lie dormant over vast expanses of time, only to be awakened by some external circumstance. Here we have 70 million people who were very quiet, until Trump arrived and gave them permission to express their feelings of white supremacy, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, the rejection of science, etc.

Can we put the evil genie back in the bottle?  We’re about to find out.