The 2016 United States Presidential Election

Less not forget they are also armed and suffering from mass psychosis.. They now can be told water is not wet and black is red and believe it.
A tenuous situation at best.

Never underestimate the power of stupid."I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."
*Trump*

They think they're making good choices.
It's the internet age of people living in their own social bubbles of confirmation bias, making it nearly impossible to properly vet and process the information they are receiving.
And then they pile up in the mega-churches and shore up those biases to complete the perfect circle jerk.Voltaire: Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit AtrocitiesEdited by Porosity, : No reason given.

Stupid does play a major roll though, just look at recent studies. Some 18% of Americans believe the sun revolves around the earth and that's just one question in many that they fail on. Much of this idiocy can be traced back to religious ideology being legislated into our public schools and the numbers don't lie. The higher the religious influence, the lower the academic scores and this can be seen across the board in states that have been infiltrated by these christian cults.