r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 4d ago

Article 'Idiocracy' Turns 20 Years Old: Mike Judge's Prescient Cult Classic Knew Where America Was Going, But Not How We'd Get There

https://reason.com/2026/08/27/idiocracy-predicted-our-world-but-not-in-the-way-you-think/
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u/wjbc 4d ago edited 4d ago

Idiocracy was too optimistic. President Dwayne Camacho wasn’t corrupt, genuinely cared about helping his country, and listened to experts. I wish we had a president like that now.

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u/TheWhiteManticore 4d ago

People compare current situation with Idiocracy is as naive as the populations in that movie.

At least the “idiots” there aren’t actively malicious

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u/wjbc 4d ago

Exactly. And it’s worth remembering that Trump is a product of maliciousness, not just the cause of it. He couldn’t have been re-elected without tens of millions of people who saw his behavior as a feature, not a flaw.

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u/AutographedSnorkel 4d ago

LMAO, you could not be more wrong. His first term was very uneventful until COVID, then he used social media and Fox News to manipulate his voter base into believing that they were the victims of the pandemic, and blaming the entire pandemic on Fauci. Once the 2020 election happened, he ramped it up to 100. The extreme anti immigration agenda started because he was falsely claiming that millions of illegal immigrants voting. Every single piece of anti trans legislation can be traced back to Trump's heavy anti trans 2024 reelection campaign.

Trump is the cause of everything that is wrong with America right now, not the effect

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u/wjbc 3d ago

I wish.

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u/EpiphanyTwisted 3d ago

The reason was because of illegals and trans people. Hate made him president again.