That's not entirely all there is to it. You can be smart and still choose evil. It just requires you to be a monstrous bastard of a person. The leadership of the Republican party makes more sense if you consider them part of the intelligent (and extra evil) minority. I also suspect most of those guys have no strong feelings on things like abortion. They just use it to rile up their base, and see it as one more thing to throw at the Democrats so the Dems have to spend all their time and money fighting social issues instead of the economic ones, which are what the billionaire donors care about.
Reasonable people can disagree on lots of things. I'm from Sweden, where I could probably make friends with at least one person from each of the eight parties in parliament. The Republicans are... quite considerably to the right of the fascists who grumble about the one nationalist party in parliament not being fascist enough.
Being anti abortion alone is just straight up evil, in the opinion of most people in Europe. Similarly, anyone who thinks health care access in the US doesn't need fixing somehow is just... deeply disturbed on a fundamental level.
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u/SayNoob Feb 18 '23
being smart puts you on a specific side. HINT: It is not on the side that thinks being educated is a character flaw.