How to Destroy a Democracy: A Guide for the Compleat Idiot

This task is not as hard as it seems at first but it takes time. There is only one essential tool, an idiot voting bloc. We at the Idiot's Guide have studied ignorance for years and have learned that inculcating ignorance can result in entrenched stupidity, the inability to process easily intelligible information and the determination to persist in ignorance.

An idiot voting bloc can usually be found by following the effects of early exposure to pernicious influences. In our test case, the USA, we identified Jimmy Swaggart, Oral Roberts and other fundamentalist preachers as rife sources of ignorance and traced them to our idiot voting bloc, lower-class southern white people and especially rednecks.

Once the idiot voting bloc is in hand the rest is easy, by the nature of demolition. Any old procedure will work since the idiot voting bloc has been conditioned to love ignorance and to react defensively and fearfully against intelligence. In our test case rednecks continued to vote for all kinds of destructive policies even after the effects were known.

And this was true even when the ill effects, no matter how severe, were brought to bear disproportionately against them. As far as we know it is still going on since it seemed that they would carry their ignorance to the grave, though this was only a test case and it would be good if someone could find a way to stop it before things really implode.