I see so many posts calling the voters who didn't support Harris "stupid"

[Hekate]

119. We are a stupid, stupid country. It began decades ago with the dumbing down of public education...

Civics was boooooring and hard. Foreign languages were unnecessary — and hard.

Home schooling (textbooks courtesy of the religious right wing/ taught by stay at home Moms with no credentials required) should be supported with our tax money.

If your local school is falling to pieces, take our tax money to a charter school. And by the way charter schools, like private schools, are not required to teach your precious child if they are a problem in any way (and I do mean special needs) — making public schools the place of last resort.

Did I mention Civics is boring?

Something I figured out in high school about 1964 from reading an actual book: stupidity is not inborn and is unrelated to IQ. It is something a person and a society have to work at to achieve. That, by the way, was not the message of the novel I was reading — I simply worked it out for myself based on the behavior of one of the lead characters.

My feelings about my country at this moment: tremendous potential squandered. Stupid, stupid citizens. And we had to work at it to get here.