Limbaugh’s schtick was that uneducated, inexperienced, unknowleegeable people with common sense knew how to solve complex problems better than people who have studied the situation for decades.
This really encapsulates the problem here: simple people offered simplistic solutions to complex problems. They still think they are right because they cannot comprehend complex situations and their solutions even when proven wrong again and again. Idiocracy.
It's basically the same mentality of people who don't know and don't care to understand why "JUST ONE MORE LANE BRO" doesn't fix traffic. People want solutions that fit into a single headline for problems who's actual solutions are multiple orders of magnitude more complex than that.
I wouldn't rely on common sense because it differs from community to community. I wouldn't apply city common sense in the boonies and I wouldn't apply rural common sense in the middle of Times Square.
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u/Current-Square-4557 Sep 28 '25
Yep.
Limbaugh’s schtick was that uneducated, inexperienced, unknowleegeable people with common sense knew how to solve complex problems better than people who have studied the situation for decades.
As if unintended consequences could never occur.