IA is a pejorative, and I hate it when people get lumped into categories that way

[Peacetrain]

but it so applies to the entire group that marched up to the Capitol on January 6th.. to the supporters of Trump period.. They are IA's.. (ignorant a**holes).. There is not a redeeming quality in any of them.. They are just a waste of skin that is determined to bring down our democracy.. I always try and find a silver lining somewhere.. but there is nothing. And I can't believe I am saying this.. but the best thing we can do is have the FBI track them down, and put the whole horde on trial.. expose every single part of their lives just as they are trying to do to other people. And maybe, just maybe it will start to be a wake up call to the followers of Trump who have not yet broken laws but have an unexplained empathy for the IA's

[Sogo]

1. IA is the abbreviation for Iowa.

I wish you would figure out a different pejorative and amend your post.

[Peacetrain]

2. I live in IA.. so no..

[Sogo]

4. I do, too.....so yes....

[LakeArenal]

5. Author of the thread gets to decide what it means.

[SharonClark]

3. Just stop this hate of Iowa.

There are good and bad people in every state.

[TwilightZone]

9. The post has nothing to do with Iowa.

Might want to read it before commenting.

[Ms. Toad]

6. IA - I read that as a vaccine categorization. n/t

[Redleg]

7. I like the term and use it with caution

I think that many are ignorant assholes but also a good number of them are gullible people who have been unduly influenced by the ignorant assholes with whom they associate. After a few years, they too will become ignorant assholes.

The right-wing really is in a limited information bubble. They do not trust the "mainstream media" at all so they get their news from sources that need not adhere to any ethical standards. They believe the garbage they hear when it fits their world-view. This garbage gets repeated and augmented and re-linked so many times that what passes for knowledge in this bubble is really just opinion given the authority of having been cited by many right-wing authorities, including the POTUS and many congress critters, and repeated ad nauseum by the members of their movement.

Many of them claim to have "done their research" on the Q-Anon and other right-wing conspiracies and thus believe their "knowledge" to be hard won, important, and special. What passes for research in their world mainly involves internet searches for citations supporting their viewpoints rather than going to the original sources. Plenty of us on the left are prone to this too. I think the right-wingers are worse in this because they exclude otherwise legitimate sources (i.e., "mainstream media," and the bulk of climate scientists, medical scientists, economists, etc.) in their "research." I think those of us on the left have a much shorter list of taboo information sources and therefore will have a more fully-rounded picture of reality, although imperfect, still more accurate than right-wing views.

[Timewas]

8. Ok

Ignoranus