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Presidents Are Far From "Dumb"

Whether you want to accept it, they all are smart enough to be elected president.

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Presidents Are Far From "Dumb"
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The practice of calling politicians “idiots” or “stupid” or “imbeciles” is a practice that many many people take part in. It’s extremely understandable. You see a politician getting in trouble for sending dick pics to some person and getting caught. You can be very justified in calling said person an idiot because, in hindsight, it is a regrettable act. However, while some politicians legitimately can be called idiots or imbeciles because of the absurd acts they commit, there is one group of politicians that simply are very, very far from being dumb. That group are the ones that serve the office of president.


Presidents are not dumb by any stretch of the imagination, any of them.


Do they sometimes said dumb things or do dumb things? Sure! But they are not dumb. Even without taking into account that they all have very strong educations from world-renowned institutions, they are still pretty damn smart.


How you may ask?


Well for one, they became president. Idiots do not become presidents. Whether they may have appealed to voters of less than average intelligence is another story. George W. Bush, for example, is usually mocked. Is he dumb? HE WAS ELECTED TWICE. That's very, very, very far from being dumb. He knew to play the voting base and the system. So who is the real fool? The one we may see be the fool or the millions of people that followed the person?


The only fools that can be said are the ones that voted.


Also note: I just used George W. Bush as an example, I do not necessarily believe that his voting base was foolish by any means- I just decided to use him to illustrate my point on how some people view the intelligence level of presidents.

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