Some timorous types caution against underestimating the Dem socialists, portraying them as “smart,” especially in their quest for raw power. They are not — they are morons.
One of the few Dems with an ounce of common sense today is Senator John Fetterman. The hooded one is plain-spoken, plain-dressed, and, when it comes to the socialists in his party, speaks the plain truth. He recently relayed that people he met who suffered the indignities of socialism and communism abroad consider socialists in this country to be “morons.” This seems self-evident, but it’s useful to corroborate such propositions quantitatively, where possible.
Turns out that Gen Z (too many of whom can vote, being in the range of 14-29 immature years of age) are officially the first generation who are literally dumber than the previous generation. Countering the Flynn Effect, they scored lower on standardized tests (including literacy, numeracy, and IQ measures) than the preceding millennial generation. So when commonsense Americans with some real-life experience wonder who on Earth could vote for a socialist, here is your answer: the cognitively challenged — literally — Gen Z nitwits.
It is well documented that young people played disproportionate roles in electing mayoral morons like Mamdani and Katie Wilson. Mamdani deservedly gets most of the appalling attention, but Wilson is a deluded Seattle socialist who is in over her head. Only recently escaping from her parents’ financial tentacles, she represents a “failure to launch.” The woman who immaturely smirks and welcomes the prospect of job-creators abandoning her city is mentally unsound by the Puget Sound. Her minimal experience comes from leftist indoctrination and mouthy community organizations (while daddy paid the bills), not real life.
No problem — the Gen Z morons supported her. In fact, they were both elected by misguided youth inculcated with bookish notions (to the extent their literacy levels allowed) of socialist utopia that never align with the real-world necessities. Fetterman is right, but, disconcertingly, Dem socialists are more dangerous than good-natured morons. Whereas capitalist-oriented, free-market systems are adaptable (pure capitalism has never really existed at scale), central-planning socialists needn’t bother with such inconvenient flexibility. After all, they already have the ultimate answers to optimizing the means of production and distribution (and all that accompanies that).
So, not only are they quite literally illiterate morons, they foolishly believe they’ve stumbled upon the absolute answers to socialist Shangri-La. That’s very un-Socratic, and typifies dogmatic postmodern academia. By contrast, the Socratic Method entails continuous probing and questioning of ideas — even socialist ones. Indeed, the main reason the Oracle of Delphi proclaimed Socrates to be wise is because he recognized that “I know that I know nothing.”
Described as the “gadfly of Athens,” Socrates’s epiphany came from the continual questioning of so-called intellectuals of his day. Perhaps they are analogous to our modern-day “experts” who lead us up the garden path. Socrates was wise because he recognized his own ignorance. Gen Z socialists are proven morons (per test scores, in addition to their voting patterns and general deportment), who don’t know what they don’t know.
Hellbound and Down 