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Except that they are in fact stupid.
Yes - that's largely due to an educational system and a culture that (not coincidentally) fails them, and yes - it's an insulting term. But it's true, and bluntly, I don't give a shit if stupid people are offended by being called stupid, and particularly when those specific stupid people are responsible for electing and supporting a government that's on a direct parh to bringing needless suffering and death to millions.
They are going to destroy everything that was ever good about the US and kill millions of people along the way. It's far too late to worry about them maybe getting their feelings hurt if we say something mean about them.
If you'd like to ensure you're up against an additional ~112,000,000 adversaries, by all means. That's how many apathetic or disenfranchised voters sat out the election. I don't like those odds, and I refuse to deny anyone the chance to redeem themselves. Describing them as stupid when you are aware of and admit to the fact the intentional actions of a hostile government has created the environment that made them 'stupid' will only create more enemies.
Unless you're willing to kill a hundred of million in pursuit of your own goals we will need to help those who have been disadvantaged and show them a path out of apathy. That's not just teaching literacy and critical thinking, mind you. It's providing opportunity to pursue and achieve goals they had buried away in themselves when they realized how badly the deck was stacked against them.
Universal health care and universal basic income are small steps in the right direction, but with the looming spectre of climate change (that we are actively, intentionally, and gleefully accelerating) then we need change at a systemic level. That system has under-educated and under-provided for those ~112,000,000 people. If you teach them how and why and who snatched their opportunities away it's going to be much easier to affect the change you want to see. If you're willing to lump that many people together and call them 'the problem' I'd argue that you are the problem.
Don't hate.
I understand the sentiment, but I believe your anger is misdirected. They did not have a choice in being uneducated and subject to propaganda, and have been manipulated into voting for the psychopaths, by the psychopaths. They did vote for this, but I don't know if they're actually responsible for this. Pitying them is ok, assaulting them isn't.
Aside from this, well said.