I think a similar list could be made for many of the motivations of Labour voters.
I haven’t said anybody is stupid. You are perhaps mistaking my comment about poor economic understanding (which is about knowledge and in my opinion a key failing of our education system) and - in many cases poor numeracy as the data about UK school leavers shows - for a comment on people’s intelligence or intellectual ability which is largely innate. It wasn’t - I said nothing whatsoever about people’s intelligence.
My comments were about poor knowledge and therefore being unable to make rational assessments of what the significant matters are from an economic perspective and distinguish between things which are a (deliberate) distraction and those which will actually make a meaningful difference to the public finances and therefore productivity, growth and living standards. I also commented about people’s frustration with the ongoing mismanagement for decades now and said this was understandable.
Not being numerate or having been taught the basics of economics (not covered by the national curriculum) makes the electorate easier to manipulate. This is not calling the electorate “stupid”. Intelligence and knowledge are not the same. I was pointing out a failure (in my opinion, a very deliberate one) in the education system.
Again, meanings being assigned to words by you and other posters which are not what they actually say. If I wanted to say all Reform voters were racist and stupid then that’s what I’d have said. It wasn’t, so I didn’t. My words mean what they actually state.
I would encourage all Reform voters who react like this to any discussion on politics to examine their behaviour because this shows the complete hypocrisy of the usual “insulting people won’t persuade them”, “people need to engage and understand each other’s point of view”. Yet even when asked for theirs and someone trying to engage with them, it’s met with a barrage of insults and attempts to twist their comments and pretend they mean something else. It’s too exhausting so no wonder people give up.
If you actually want to discuss the things that are bothering you about the country and ways that people could come together behind a policy program that wasn’t divisive and had majority support that might actually improve things, then a change of approach on your part is needed, not just from those who actually do insult you for your views. Not everyone is the enemy and if you treat them as such with this kind of adversarial and aggressive approach then quite clearly nothing will improve. It’s much too tiresome to try to have rational conversations with people if they absolutely refuse to do so and wilfully misrepresent everything you say, so people won’t bother to engage with you if you continue to do this.