There are more poor, uneducated and simply stupid voters than middle class intelligent and educated ones. Even if they go to school, many do not, they never learn anything and remain illiterate and stupid till they die. When they are told by the demagogues that the rich should pay more taxes they swallow the bait along with the hook, the sink and everything else. They are so stupid they vote for the demagogues who use them only to get elected and become rich.
If everyone in America had read Stephen Moore's new book, "Who's
The Fairest of Them All?", Barack Obama would have lost the election in a
landslide.
The point here is not to say, "Where was Stephen Moore when we needed him?" A more apt question might be, "Where was the whole economics profession when we needed them?" Where were the media? For that matter, where were the Republicans?
Since "Who's The Fairest of Them All?" was published in October, there was little chance that it would affect this year's election. But this little gem of a book exposes,...
Working people i.e; including Southerners and non-welfare collectors) tend to vote Republican, because they must deal with the harsh realities of working and paying taxes, not collecting welfare benefits.
Marx, Engel, Lenin, etc.. were greatly educated "intellectuals" without any ability to see the world as it is.
I would take a "Stupid" person with a common sense over brilliant one without any ability to acknowledge the world as it is, a genius ( to borrow a cliche) who can't tie their own shoes.
Colleges turn out mostly "book-smart",especially in the social "studies" fields.
Education has been infiltrated by the "progressives" and they use it for indoctrination in socialism,teaching their students a lot of garbage.