While technically this solves the problem it doesn’t prevent new idiots from being made. That takes much harder, structural changes including education and new policy guard rails.
The options here aren’t good. When you’ve got half of the population being taught to never trust anything the ‘bad guys’ say and those ‘bad guys’ happen to be the educated folks - what options are you left with other than varying degrees of force?
While technically this solves the problem it doesn’t prevent new idiots from being made. That takes much harder, structural changes including education and new policy guard rails.
Tell me how we get there when the people who support Trump are required to go along with this? (Or pick your country’s far-right equivalent of Trump)
Revolution? Civil war? Which I guess brings us back to your original solution.
Or something similar to apartheid.
The options here aren’t good. When you’ve got half of the population being taught to never trust anything the ‘bad guys’ say and those ‘bad guys’ happen to be the educated folks - what options are you left with other than varying degrees of force?