This is why the world is LAUGHING at us…

American voters keep saying they hate Congress, hate corruption, and want change—but then turn around and reelect the same people year after year. It’s no wonder the rest of the world sees us as ignorant and self-sabotaging. From electing Trump twice to sparking anti-mask hysteria, the U.S. has built a reputation for making reckless, embarrassing choices. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains how voter ignorance is hurting the country—and how the world is taking notice.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

American voters are stupid. I mean, let's be honest, we have an American population that tells us every two years we hate congress. Congress sucks. These people are terrible. And then they turn around and vote for like 90% of the same people to go back to Congress. That's dumb, right? It doesn't matter what party you're from. Stupidity is not, you know, relegated to a single party, although there is one party that has a little bit more. Uh, but we make stupid decisions as voters. You know, Trump won twice the first time granted without the popular vote. And yeah, the second time didn't even hit 50%. Nevertheless, he won. That's, that's not smart. Like we can't say we're the most educated country out there, or we make the best decisions when we keep doing stupid things and yet expecting different results. That leads me to another viewer question. This one comes from Graham Howes 3 9 1 2, who says, do Americans realize the scope of the problem they've created? I mean, the population voted for Trump twice. The population is so much bigger than Trump. If your population can be so easily duped by someone as obviously deviant as Trump, it's scary how ignorant and poorly educated a massive part of your population is.

And I agree. And uh, obviously this individual, um, is not from the United States. They are an outsider looking in and this is what the rest of the world thinks of us. That's why I wanted to address this question, not just to talk about how dumb we are, but to show you that the rest of the world thinks this way about us. And yes, that is a problem. These are the people. These are people from the countries that we need for national security, we need for trade deals, we need for tourism to benefit the US economy, but they're all looking at us like we've got our fingers up our noses and a thumb up our butts because we don't know what the hell we're doing. We're just a bunch of backwoods, you know, morons to them and they're not wrong. Listen is a quote I've used a ton of times because I absolutely love this quote.

It's from the original men in black movie. It's when Tommy Lee Jones says, A person is smart, people are dumb and panicky, and he goes on, but a person is smart, people are dumb. Which basically means when you put us together, when you get large groups of individuals, the collective IQ just drops down to below room temperature. And I do think that that is, you know, startling, startlingly accurate because that is what we see. We, we have instances even outside of elections of mass hysteria. You know, we, we were the people that started the anti mask movement during COVID. Nobody else around the planet was having problems

With with it until we started doing it. And then of course, some other areas, you know, other people in other countries did start it. But we started that like, you're not gonna muzzle me. We're gonna have mask burnings. Y'all are dumb. That's just stupid. And it's because we get into this mob mentality, you know, whether it's at a political rally, whether it's at an anti mask, rally, whatever it is, and we become dumber the more people we're around. And it should be the opposite. You would think bringing more people together would be more brain power. Not for us. No, we go the opposite direction here in the United States. And yes, this is an embarrassing fact that clearly the rest of the world has picked up on.