Explaining the relationship between the stupid vote producing stupid democracies. A tongue-in-cheek look at why democracies vote stupid.


We separate and divide society constantly; whether it’s grading and streaming in schools, a political left and right, or the rich and poor, yet to do this requires the concept of an average. Using IQ as an example, we could divide a population between the clever and the stupid, using an agreed on number. That means half a population can now be classified as stupid voters.

The term, 'Common sense' also becomes a fallacy, as it is not common as the term suggests and often doesn’t make sense, but applies only to those above the average, which is why it is not commonly understood by stupid voters, but leads them to believe that their definition of sense is common to all producing a continuing stupid vote.

If we apply this to democratic voting, it means that half the population will be too stupid to understand what they’re voting for, but are needed to vote in the clever. However, the clever also know this and so clever politicians dumb down their rhetoric to appeal to the stupid vote using small sound bites run through the media; such as in the US, "I’m going to build a wall and Mexico will pay for it", or the EU, "Diversity is our strength", or the British with "levelling up." These terms are specifically designed for the stupid, who wouldn’t understand a Political Manifesto unless it contained images and was endorsed by their peers on twitter.

Supporting the clever are a majority of the clever themselves, which is why the stupid vote becomes a majority choice in democracies, but conversely, why you never get a minority of stupid politicians leading them.

No one ever got elected telling the clever to be equal to the stupid, but become electable telling the voting stupid they can be equal to the clever. That this never happens is lost on the stupid because they’re too stupid to realize it never happens, but nevertheless, it sounds clever and doesn’t everyone want to be clever?


Controlling a stupid majority is also easier for a clever minority and so the more reliance on drugs, the dumbing down of education, political hero worship and twitter tweets; the more employment it produces for the clever. Charities, drug rehab' centers and social work departments all benefit from stupid minority voters.

Additionally, the votes of the stupid majority increase as they reproduce themselves and provide new stupid offspring. With their democratic obligation of 'mobocracy' completed, the first US prize was a tax payer funded Obama phone, followed by a one off tax cut courtesy of Mr. Trump and the Europeans got a self-described leadership of "democratic deficient" autocracy.

Not surprisingly voting stupid produces stupid politicians, which in turn produce consumer laws which protect the stupid with warnings that packets of peanuts may contain … Nuts. Health and Safety regulations also warn the stupid that a floor is slippery when wet and provide stupid voters with mass-welfare that would make Marx green with envy. Moreover, it’s what enables political demagogues to intentionally sound stupid, yet become electable in stupid democracies ruled by a clever kleptocracy, producing an idiocracy with a majority equal to the proportion of stupid comments they make.

Earlier this week during Question Time in parliament, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak denied rumours of a secret factory in Basingstoke that is mass producing stupid people. The accusation arose as a result of an inquiry that questioned why a sane society would allow a politician like Boris Johnson to become a British Prime Minister.