Yes. Education, critical thinking are not a priority.

You will note that business leaders, especially the tech ones like marca, Thiel, Zuckerberg, cheer this on too.

Since they've been told climate change is a hoax, republican voters in the US have needed an explanation for the dramatic increase in the frequency/severity of severe weather events. They have flocked to the conspiracy theory that Democrats are using geo engineering to manipulate the weather for political ends and to make climate change "real".

Lest you dismiss this as the folly of the very online, states are passing laws against weather manipulation in response.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-p...

So uh yeah, really that stupid. At least enough of them to be statistically relevant in a two-party system.

They worry about, and elect political representatives that try to act on, schoolchildren that identify as cats and have litter boxes in classrooms for them. Rather lacking in any sense whatsoever, just repeating random lies like truth. On the other side of the political spectrum, they might also get up in arms because federal officials in remote areas use horses to travel in rough terrain, off road. It's not limited to one side,though I'd say quite tilted.