On Matt Taibbi and Words

From a recent post by Matt Taibbi:

Many reporters, myself included, found themselves thinking about this film [Idiocracy] when we heard voters saying they were literally incapable of understanding the words coming out of Hillary Clinton's mouth.
"When [Trump] talks, I actually understand what he's saying," a young Pennsylvanian named Trent Gower told me at a Trump event a month ago. "But, like, when fricking Hillary Clinton talks, it just sounds like a bunch of bullshit."

 My God, it really is time to use the s-word.  Voters are too stupid to understand simple declarative sentences and grade school vocabulary.  What gives?  How is it possible for people to reach voting age without absorbing enough information needed for the smallest amount of critical thinking?  How do they manage to dress themselves in the morning or tie their own shoes?