RollingThunder
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The question that has remained unanswered, since 2009 for me, is
"Why are they stupid on purpose?"
Why do you assume that retards like these deniers are "stupid on purpose"? They start off retarded and very ignorant so they are naturally very gullible and easy to fool. This makes them easy meat for any propagandists who come along and tell them crackpot stories that fit in with their ignorant retarded picture of the world. The propagandists working for the fossil fuel industry did just that. So did the Republican Party, whose voter base is now mostly the bottom third of the intelligence spectrum.
Because I have had an opportunity to observe "stupid on purpose" up close and personal. I have experienced people literally create false memories because it was more convenient to remember it the way they liked it. I have observed people refuse to learn simply because they refused to have someone else tell them what to do. Being told to not start a fire in the kitchen was telling them what to do so they chose to start a fire again.
Because I've learned better. They choose to be "gullible" because they like the answer.
OK, I guess I would have to agree with you that there is a certain element of choice involved in gullibly falling for moronic bullshit, like the dogmas of the denier cult, because the bullshit is what you prefer to believe for political and/or economic motives, but the underlying deep retardation most of the deniers display still seems to be, in most cases, congenital, and so, essentially choiceless.