Stupidity Pride
FULL DISCLOSURE: I too am proud of my stupidity.
Without reservation I insist that my views are absolutely, unconditionally correct. Which in turn establishes a Me-vs.-The Rest of Y'all dynamic. It also legitimizes the inverse, "without reservation y'all's views are absolutely, unconditionally correct."
There was a time when we, collectively, knew and understood that there was us and then there were really, really smart people. Yes, we made it through high school. Some of us even got that 2-year degree at the community college. A few went on to get that 4-year degree from university. And then there was the one or two people who were truly smart enough to continue in higher education to become Doctors or Lawyers or Engineers.
Then came the New Egalitarian Society. Egalitarian was originally defined as, "relating to or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities. (Google) The equality cited here is the reason that the high school graduate's opinions and values are just as legitimate and valid as those of a Doctor or Lawyer. After all, we are all equal. Aren't we?
So when everyone's opinions and values are equal then by the further equality of one-person-one-vote then the largest group of like-minded people get to make the decisions.
Well, heck fire, everyone knows that book-learning is just a liberal conspiracy to subjugate folks that don't have enough money to go to college. I learnt everythin' I ever needed to know when I was in the third grade. 'Sides, what was good enough fer my Pa is good enough fer my kids. All's they need to know is how to work hard.
Makin' 'Merica Great Again is exactly what its all about. Don't need no Constitutional scholar to tell us no different. Just wish all them other folks weren't so danged stoopid.