Prepare for a long quote:

"Being less than smart doesn't automatically make you stupid. In this era that label should be reserved for those who are doggedly reckless, defiantly uninformed or proactively disconnected.

For instance, you all know people who proudly refuse to accept- despite the tonnage of scientific evidence - that the earth's climate is changing. Arctic ice caps puddle, equatorial oceans rise, subtropical deserts grow hotter, yet these chowderheads claim it's all a political lie, fake news.

And they'll tell you that while standing ankle-deep in tidewater on a street corner in Miami Beach.

During prehistoric times, such blundering specimens would have made an easy supper for the fleet and the fanged. Today, in the absence of feral predators, the unfittest survive longer and cause more damage.

Many of them will find their way to voting booths on Election Day. Your duty is to offset the harm they do by making sure that you, too, vote. This will require staying minimally aware of current events, and showing up before polls close."