I think if you lack critical thinking skills but have all your material needs met, have a non alienating job that is satisfying, and aren’t constantly seeking answers for why your life sucks (that the media loves to provide in the form of lies), you’re probably going to be pretty happy.
I guess my point is that it’s not necessarily the lack of critical thinking alone. It’s the combination of that with people’s material circumstances.
Basically I’m just describing that I see it through a lense of dialectical materialism.
It’s why I want racist or homophobic idiots to also have free universal healthcare, education, and a fulfilling job. Because I don’t think you can solely “educate” away the conditions that lead people to look for answers to their poor conditions. Answers that Twitter Nazis and media outlets are happy to fill with xenophobia and bigotry.
White working class people definitely still have privileges and advantages. But you can’t educate away their feelings of “well, my parents owned a house at 19 and lived off a single salary. I’m driving for Uber and have 3 roommates”. And the bigotries are there to offer them reasons for why it’s not their own failure and (most importantly) why it’s not the failures of capitalism.
I’m pretty sure he came to DC and got applause from Congress during a floor speech last time. Didn’t he?
Oh, sorry, I’m thinking of a different international war criminal we love even more.
So hard to keep track of them all.