I mean, I think it's complicated; there is something to be said about the intentional suppression of education that the right has studiously (ironically) worked on precisely because a less informed population is easier to manipulate, etc.

I don't think it absolves them of fault (I insatiably read every Leopards Ate My Face story as much as the next person; no lie).

I'd, also, contemplate that it's maybe not sufficiently explained by just lack of critical thinking if they're on their third round of voting for him.

I just meant that – if your argument is that they weren't taught critical thinking – it, definitionally, can't be stupidity but ignorance because stupidity is when you knew full-well and better while ignorance is when you don't know something.

(I also think there's an unintentional leaning, on Lemmy, towards a eugenics-sympathetic "well, these people are just constitutionally stupid and that's just the way they are" relatively often (though the current state of the world makes it a bit understandable). I'm not saying OP thinks that but I could see those who're sympathetic to that worldview easily working with the original statement, as worded; and I think we easily don't walk into those sort of pitfalls when we're particular and accurate about our words and definitions (hence, also, why I was pointing out that it can't be stupidity, definitionally))