“Every thinking person in America will be voting for you.” Stevenson replied, “I’m afraid that won’t do—I need a majority.” (This exchange may not have actually happened. Still, this political anecdote has been cited in print since at least 1968.)

The takeaway - it appears worth acknowledging the mass *voting public* are falling into the Idiocracy trap. Education and practice of #AdvancedCitizenship was not marketed as well as bread & circuses by mega-corps, etc.