• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    18 hours ago

    I don’t think it is even an intelligence issue. I think you hit the nail on the head with the last sentence: Americans are not taught to think critically. That is a skill you have to be taught and once taught, you have to exercise it. And the latter isn’t happening because most schools don’t do the former.

    You can be very smart, but without that skill in your tool belt, it doesn’t matter in many situations. Especially not with politics.

    And I think it explains why there are so many evangelicals in the engineering field. They aren’t stupid people, they just don’t know how to think critically and they are in a field where they don’t necessarily have to but can still use their intelligence.