No one said they were born out of a vacuum. They don’t believe that they are morally wrong, they believe they are morally correct and the rest of us are morally wrong.
But my point is that it has nothing to do with intelligence, it’s more to do with ideology. They’ve come to believe that they are “god’s elect” and that the country is being attacked by forces that is undermining the moral authority of god.
I think if we just dismiss them as “ignorant” or “stupid” it undermines our attempts to deal with them as a force in society. The reality is that many people in the US are religious, and as such, these sorts of arguments can sway them. Just dismissing them does not help.
