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There’s a satirical (well, don’t know how long it will be considered that) movie about it… it’s called Idiocracy
It's a great movie, but the eugenics theme is bullshit. The causes of modern decline have nothing to do with the half-baked idea that idiots will overrun the world through breeding.
Idiots aren't born in increasing waves, they're made by chronically underfunding education and flooding the world with propaganda and manipulative social media algorithms.
I would much rather have Camacho as president than Cheeto Benito.
Terry Crews 2028!
That applies as far as the dumbing down of the population, but even they didn't go for fascists as leaders. That's right, the population of Idiocracy was smarter than what we have now.
I used to think this movie was funny but now it's just kind of painful because it's largely true.
Except Camacho was a caring president, in his own way.
He is the most unrealistic part of the film, he had a problem, found the most qualified person to fix it, listened to them (eventually), and then didnt take credit for it.