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human
ELI5: Anti-intellectualism in the US

I read all of this stuff about the US being extremely anti-intellectual at this point in history and I'm wondering why and how it's gaining traction, where it started, etc.

I'm American.

EDIT for clarification: Why are the "Right Wing" proponents allowed to continue shouting these views to people who keep buying into it? I guess I'm wondering why the movement is allowed to continue. If I were uneducated or under-educated, I don't think I'd presume to know the best way to, say, run a world economy or advance science. Just as now, though I am college-educated, I know that what I know isn't sufficient to make these types of decisions. I try to keep myself informed, but I am in no way an expert. If I were even less educated or less informed, then I would have less to say about an issue and knowing my ignorance, would either try to inform myself more or trust in those who are more educated / informed to these decisions. 

I'm not a Democrat or Republican.

TL; DR; Why is idiocracy being allowed to happen?
gpt
You are just informed enough to realize you don't know things.  You mistakenly believe that being less informed means you think you know less.  This terms out to not be accurate.  People who aren't informed about things actually tend to think they know quite a bit about something.

Basically, ignorant people think they aren't ignorant, therefore when they see people talking about college education (or any real education) they don't see the value, because they don't believe they are missing anything.  Since they aren't missing anything, this talk about "experts" is just showing off, they are angry about what they see as people just trying to look smart.