OMG, I've never received so many marriage proposals in one day, or even ever! I mean I've had proposals, but not always ones I'd entertain 
Anyway, moving on from my murky past Yes! hands up I'm a distrustful cynic particularly relating to institutions, religious bodies, politics and governments, it's a long list. That trust was embedded a long time ago, when the lid was blown off the catholic church's shenanigans, brought up to believe that this massive hierarchy was a force for good and then discovering it encompassed all manner of evil behind that facade and something else I took from being raised a catholic, never under estimate the power of the patriarchy, in their many guises. I kind of just don't take anything much at face value. There's always an agenda just look at the The UN, WHO, Charities such as Help The Children, Oxfam, The fecking WEF, the list goes on, sinister, shadowy, murky, kickbacks, in the pockets of God know who, to me nothing is ever as transparent as it may seem. in a world full of lobbyists with vested interests. Yeah! so pretty much posters like Galaxy and Oreo, "you are my people" but that doesn't mean I don't listen to the points of view expressed by others. . No one has ever nailed the argument for the rights of natal women better than Doodledog, no one presents the background of the girl grooming horrors with more compassion and understanding than Iam.
Going back to the OP though, the assumption made by her, along the lines of "most of the electorate have the understanding of a 9 year old". With what was almost likely to have been an American pov, presumably because "they" the lumpen ones didn't vote Democrat. A rationale that is born out universally in the western world by those who no longer see the left wing as their saviours and all of the evils of the world are encompassed in the so called far right. Far right of course extends to anybody slightly right of centre, so if you are a critic of the way the whole "grooming" debacle was handled, or you feel that justice wasn't really served in that connection, or you are a critic of the way this government has handled pretty much anything, now by extension those become members of the "far right"
Going back to the US, and her supposition that the Christian Far Right hold the sway in some states I don't doubt that, but where's the balance, perhaps the OP has never read Demon Copperhead or watched the excellent "Dopesick" So lets just wonder why swathes of that demographic were to be labelled as "The basket of deplorables" by the magnanimous Hillary Clinton, those who couldn't bring themselves to vote for her and voted instead for Trump. Maybe they were the West Virginians targeted in poor mining areas where minor injuries by nature of their work were prevalent. Into there lives came Purdue Pharmaceuticals who pushed their highly addictive prescriptions for Oxycontin which lead to tens of thousands of premature deaths, hundreds of thousands of addicts, lives ruined in the poorest of communities. The company was
found guilty of misleading the public about the dangers of the drug, no one was really held to account.
We have something similar over here just mention the word "Brexit" and we have an almost automaton response "too thick not to realise what was written on the side of the bus were lies" that's the narrative, by the way did anyone read Petra's thoughts on the matter up thread. I did vote remain, with reservations. I think the way free movement was rolled out here like a Tsunami impacted on communities who had to absorb a disproportionate amount of people into their towns almost overnight and that put immense strain on their infrastructure, why wasn't it phased in gradually as it was in France and Germany for example? ffs! did the government really believe only 13,000 would come, where did they pluck that figure out of the air from anyway. Blair I believe has said "with hindsight we'd have done it differently" we don't need hindsight from our politicians we need foresight and a bit of honesty wouldn't go amiss either. Of course it was good for industry, back unanimously by the CBI and whilst I don't doubt we need immigration in some areas and I don't underestimate those benefits, particularly in the NHS, At the same time though it has to be balanced, some saw their livelihoods shrivel, wages stagnated because of an over supply of labour, read the Grapes of Wrath to see the ruinous effects of too many vying for the same work, eventually what they earned was reduced to subsistence levels, extreme circumstances nearly a 100 years ago, but we don't always learn from history. An oversupply of workers is a mandate for companies to underpay their workforce. Salaries in many corporations are still lower than they should be, coupled with umpteen more people arriving here, concentrated in certain areas, where the shortage of housing is now critical. As Petra commented up- thread people often voted as to how they were personally affected. I don't suppose for one moment there is going to be much of a meeting of minds between those who weathered the full force of the impact of overnight immigration in say Boston, Lincs and Richmond on Thames near where I lived for nearly 4 decades, where they resoundly voted to remain, an enclave of haves if ever there was one.
Honestly, I think the propensity to label great swathes of the population as thick or having a stunted mentality has become the new class war, it probably never went away. It's a tacit "I'm educated and can see the bigger picture, You can't because you're not only under educated but have the mentality of a 9 year old, you shouldn't really have the vote, even if I do believe in a more equal world, just as long as it's my vision of what that world should be"
I am returning to the safe and relatively calm haven of GN where peace and goodwill is in abundance 
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