We live in a democracy! How can you not be concerned with 95% of the population? They rule you.

If we lived in some sort of meritocratic aristocracy, perhaps then we could focus our efforts on only the smartest 5%.

As it is, it's the 95% who decide what happens in our elections, and its our elections who decides what rules get made, what projects get funded. The President of the United States could unleash nuclear war at any time. He's not likely to---but he could. And if he did push that button, it's over, for all of us. So we need to be very concerned about who is in charge of that button, and that means we need to be very concerned about the people who elect him.

Right now, 46% of them think the Earth is 6000 years old. This worldview comes with a lot of other anti-rationalist baggage like faith and the Rapture. And it runs our country. Is it just me, or does this seem like a serious problem, one that we should probably be working to fix?