[aphextron]

Is this an education problem though? Surely those crowds at the capitol had plenty of well educated, highly functioning adults. But when you incentivize divisiveness to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars in ad revenue, companies like Facebook, grifting media personalities, and corrupted politicians will always collude to outwit them. We have a problem with a runaway hyper-capitalist economic system and decaying democratic institutions that reward manipulative sociopathic behavior.

[lupire]

Citation needed on that "educated, well functioning".

[maxfurman]

Were they morons? Perhaps. But most of them were what we'd otherwise call "functioning adults," i.e. people with families and jobs. Their only crime was trusting Donald Trump. Well, that and the rioting.