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Education, Not Income, Predicted Who Would Vote For Trump.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer's argues that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones. This is because while we can protest against or fight evil people, against stupid ones we are defenseless — reasons fall on deaf ears. Bonhoeffer's famous text, which we slightly edited for this video, serves any free society as a warning of what can happen when certain people gain too much power. https://youtu.be/ww47bR86wSc TRUMP'S APPEAL TO THE COGNITIVELY CHALLENGED: New research reports Trump voters were more likely to perform poorly on a test of intellectual ability. During the 2016 election, Donald Trump famously proclaimed "I love the poorly educated!" Well, if "poorly educated" is a euphemism for "cognitively challenged," new research finds they loved him right back. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/10/08/why-his-fans-think-donald-trump-has-great-unmatched-wisdom/ It reports Trump voters, on average, performed more poorly than Hillary Clinton