How Republicans captured the low IQ voter.

[redqueen]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLNeSGDx/

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Meh. IQ is a racist and ableist concept, and conflating racism and intelligence is ridiculous.

[Bucky]

6. Amen. It's a wisdom and compassion thing, not intelligence

There were plenty of high functioning, highly educated people running around the Capitol smearing feces on the wall on January 6th. They were professionals, business owners, upper middle class suckers who were willingly hoodwinked into buying Trump's absurd, fact-free lies about the election.

Normally I don't like to blame the victim, even among a scam artist's marks, but the people who fall for Trump's flim flam are the types who are so in love with their own petty grievances, they're basically begging to be bamboozled.

But they're not idiots. They're just fools

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Can't disagree with his assessment, but

why was he ever a Republican? My first vote in 72 was George McGovern, and I thought Republican foreign policy in CA and SA sucked in the 80s.

[tulipsandroses]

3. The most interesting thing he said was regarding " New Democrats"

Being a republican was a status symbol for some folks. Those well heeled upper middle class folks. Some don’t want to align with the MAGA morons, because, well they see them as less than. Not on their level.

You know folks like Boobert would not be invited to schmooze with republican women who consider themselves to be in the upper class.

We will be in a quagmire for years to come.
How much will the “New Democrats” change the Democratic party?

[Upthevibe]

4. redqueen......

Excellent video outlining some of the things that have happened.

Lee Atwater is certainly one of the original leaders of this horrible movement. It makes total sense. The Southerners who were incensed about the civil rights movement and losing their status. Them feeling that the lowest class (and yes, those with low I.Q.'s) of whiteness trumps the highest class of people of color. It's disgusting.

[NanaCat]

5. I always like to keep things simple

The reason the GQP has a stranglehold on low IQ voters is because like attracts like.

Why complicate the matter?