Well your example was stupid. There are always exceptions, but "the public" as a whole is stupid. Why do you think election campaigns run on negative advertising instead of talking policy?
Here, let me rub your face in the stupidity: apparently almost half the United States population believes in ghosts and does not believe in evolution: http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500160_162-994766.html
I'm in no way coming from a position of intellectual superiority, rather from observational despair.
http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2012
"Lincoln" was #13.
Here, let me rub your face in the stupidity: apparently almost half the United States population believes in ghosts and does not believe in evolution: http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500160_162-994766.html
I'm in no way coming from a position of intellectual superiority, rather from observational despair.