Pretty stupid, it appears. Pretty, damn stupid.

In 2016, about 40% of America’s registered voters voted for a misogynistic, egotistic, name-calling, orange-haired billionaire with no political experience because he “fights for the common man”. Or because he “talks just like us”.

One of the billionaire’s sentences proclaimed “I could shoot some one in the middle of 7th Avenue and my voters would still vote for me.”

Four years later, professional politicians supporting the billionaire–and the billionaire–lost an election they call “the greatest heist in American History”. Their words. The 2020 election was full of fraud and illegal. So much so they stormed the Capitol to “take back” the country and restore power to the billionaire.

Illegal. Fraudulent. Stolen.

Except in the states the billionaire won. And not one Republican politician elected to office as a result of the “Great Election Fraud” has relinquished his illegally elected office and stopped receiving his pay check. Not one. Oh, but they have gone after civil servants who administered the elections. Those, lying, cheating, high-paid civil servants. And created tons of laws making elections–and election fraud–more difficult. Right. Now that THEY have their office.

And all cases of PROVEN fraud–less than 10 so far!–have involved Republicans. In NC, a local race had to be re-run because of Republican Fraud. The voters elected Republicans, again.

It is so mind-numbingly stupid it beggars belief. For example, the billionaire’s Federal Election Integrity Commission he started AFTER he won the 2016 election–FRAUD!–met for 9 months and disbanded. Nothing to do. At least the billionaire did not ask for that commission to be reinstated, That would have looked stupid.

So what to make of all this? Americans are really, really stupid. And not getting any smarter any time soon. In our local primaries in NC, three candidates did not attend debates, did not sit for interviews with established media, and spent millions of dollars on television attack ads. They all won. Without EVER discussing policy, facts, positions, history,…anything.

The common element in all this is money. Money is buying elections, and buying it for both parties, though the Republicans are much better at it. And what does money do? It pays for advertising and “messaging”. And it supports “silos” of specialized information for people to get lost in, without feeling lost.

But there is not one, single politician worthy of the blind loyalty of any segment of the American People. Or the money spent on them. Politics is now sport, but with no rules and no referees. And the winner is the one with the most money.

All thanks to us, the average citizen. The ones with very little money. But we can get those cool MAGA hats.

Until the American people wise up and see clearly how they are being used, money will take over entirely. No Medicaid for poor people. Social Security, done, because “its just a waste to spend money on old people”. Forget the looming Long Term Care Issue.

In fact, forget everything: we’re better off being stupid.