That's exactly what they think about their political opponents, Backwoodsman. They think they're brainless. I know...I've heard some of these fellas on the Right talking to one another about "liberals". God, do they ever detest liberals. And they honestly believe that everything that's wrong with the world is due to either liberals...or Muslims.

But the Muslims they're so worried about are not liberals. ;-) In fact, they are extremely conservative in their own cultural terms.

You see, politics works this way:

1. It's the Great Divider.

2. By dividing people up into "us and them" consciousness, it conquers them...and it enriches the elite who rule over them.

3. The elite is normally composed of bankers, industrialists, and arms manufacturers. These people get rich off conflict. Wars and fear of war are primary sources of income for them. Increased expenditure on surveillance equipment and organization also profits them.

4. So...the more they can get different groups of people to hate and fear each other, the more money they can make.

5. The creation of separate political parties and other separate factions aids greatly in this endeavour, by setting up various groups of people in permanent opposition to one another.

6. All those groups of people can easily be convinced that the other groups of people ARE the real problem.

7. They are not. The elite that rules over them all is the real problem.

8. It was that way in Roman times. It is that way now.

9. And there probably isn't a lot you can personally do about it...except stop believing in it, and thereby giving it your support by default, just because you don't know any better. Stop believing the standard propaganda line that makes you hate and fear your brother!

I stopped believing in it quite some time ago. If enough people stopped believing in it, the human status quo would have to change.

It is never going to change by hating and despising your brother and characterizing him as "brainless". He's not brainless. He's just been coached and prepared within a different belief group than you, therefore he has become susceptible to a different line of political propaganda. And that serves the ruling elite, because as long as they can keep you and your brother fighting each other they have you right where they want you...under the big political thumb, dominated, and controlled.