You have to respect that people are smart in different ways.

Yes, Drumpf is an idiot for everything except manipulating people. Should I ‘respect’ his ability to literally get away consequence free with *Gestures wildly at EVERYTHING*

so you don’t notice their intelligence,

No, most people are idiots through and through, some people have self-improving interests and hobbies that gives them greater breadth of though, but I’d argue that’s less than 20% of the population.

Most people have a calcified worldview built from things their families and friends tell them with very little self-examination that they are STUBBORNLY resistant to shedding, and will ghost family instead of addressing their internal conflicts.

Look I get you have a positive view of humanity and at one point so did I but I cannot stress to you the importance of the fact that 60-70% of the population are basically just children that refuse to leave the Concrete Operational mode.