The Stupidification of American Policy

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

There are many ways a country can decline. It can become poorer and weaker or lose its alliances or its technological edge.

But there is another, more insidious form of decline: a country can become stupider.

That is what has happened to American policymaking under Donald Trump. The defining feature of the Trump era is not simply cruelty or corruption, though there has been plenty of both. It is the breathtaking intellectual collapse of how the United States approaches both foreign and domestic policy. Complex systems are reduced to slogans. Long chains of cause and effect are ignored. Decisions that require strategic planning are instead made through impulse and bravado.

Most of the time, that impulse and bravado emanate from Trump himself — a man who has bankrupted multiple businesses and marriages and who is the most intellectually lazy president in modern history.

https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-stupidification-of-american-policy il

[The Wizard]

1. The great dumbing down started

in 1968 with VP Spiro Agnew and Alabama governor, George Wallace. They said thing like "pointy headed liberals in their ivory towers." In Republican code liberal is euther educated
Sine then the GQP has vilified education. Der Fuhrer said he loves the poorly educated. He left out the part about rubes and dupes. He left out the part about a permanent minimum wage work force.

[yellow dahlia]

2. I think the television studios also bear some of the responsibility for the dumbing down of America.

At the end of the last century they were offering shows such as Survivor. Survivor is not reality.

Real housewives of what?

Dumb television scripting and superficial content took over much of the programming.