- For every intelligent person who votes at the polls, there are bound to be more incredibly ignorant ones who also vote. Such ignorant people are usually driven by blind emotion (i.e. greed, fear, pride, vanity, gluttony, wrath, hate, or religious zeal), and not by reason at all. NEVER appeal to anyone's intellect. ALWAYS appeal to their blind emotion. Create a national atmosphere of awesome spectacle and mind-numbing fear (i.e. a vicious enemy has struck, and he will not rest until he has destroyed you all!), and then stand as "the steadfast savior of this great nation." Your aura will become godlike in the eyes of those ignorant people motivated by fear. Tout your religion about as you play this role of "hero," and you will win the support of those ignorant people motivated by religious zeal. Have your military forces invade the countries where the above-mentioned "vicious enemy" MAY HAVE come from (heck, you don't even have to be very accurate about the point of origin, since ignorant people usually don't even care about such details), and you have endeared yourself to those ignorant people motivated by wrath, hate, and pride. Talk about the economic benefits to be gained from such an invasion, and you will have the faithful support of those ignorant people driven by greed and gluttony. Talk about how great and victorious a nation you run, and that the nation doesn't owe anything to the global community anymore, and you will be worshipped by those ignorant people motivated by vanity.
- Befriend the ignorant, and you will have an ally for life. Turn your back on the ignorant, and you will have an enemy for life. Successfully deceive the people, by demonstration, into believing that the ignorant are wise and prudent, while the intelligent are foolish and stupid, and the ignorant will love you for as long as you live. Demonstrate that mental laziness and lack of education actually have lasting rewards, while intelligent people who ask too many questions are unpatriotic troublemakers who need to be "put in their place," and the ignorant will kiss your feet forever. (In many cases, all you have to do is simply BE an ignorant (or seemingly ignorant) White Anglo-Saxon Protestant male who comes from the same part of America overpopulated by ignorant people, and the ignorant will love and support you unconditionally, even while you're busy raising their taxes and increasing the national deficit, to name but a few politically unsavory deeds.)
- Even when you have been proven to be wrong beyond any reasonable doubt, continue to insist that you are right anyway, and that what you said or did simply MUST be right because YOU said or did it. The ignorant masses who blindly follow you without question will also blindly believe you without question, and they're the only ones who really matter to you. And besides, according to the ignorant masses, "the steadfast savior of this great nation" cannot ever be wrong, even when he IS wrong.
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