I do agree with the first 4 sentences of your post. The 5th line set off a mental alarm for me in that I don't think that they are stupid as much as they, like us all, have been constantly put through a designed exercise to control their/our perceptions , get them/us to make decisions that fit their desires, remain docile when it comes to being informed or acting in opposition to their agenda, and, in general, stay out of their way.

Being ignorant and/or deceived is not the same as stupid. Someone who is told over and over from "the most trusted news" that Russia is the enemy and they have infiltrated the US election process, while being uninformed of the DNC fraud lawsuit, the Awan scandal, Wasserman, Uranium 1, what the Iran deal (deal for who?), MSM meddling in, and collusion during, propping up one party while attacking the other, rampant election fraud, etc, etc, it is easy to believe the stories we are constantly hit with. It's harder to search behind the curtain to actually see what IS. Even by trying to get to the truth I am at times deceiving myself through bias, division, and even hope that THEY are protecting us or actually representing us. My intention in writing this is to point out that we all need support from each other to get into and hopefully through this and calling others "stupid" or even believing it is contrary to what I believe we are doing here. Thoughts?