Sorry to be a (pity) party pooper, but I'm genuinely disappointed to see this take from you. Not because it's already been done to death for the past 8 years, but because it was bad to begin with.
Idiocracy's setup is that the world goes to shit bc not enough smart people are breeding. Literally. The problem is too many dumb babies by dumb hicks (whose president just happens to be black), and not enough smart babies by smart elites (for whom the movie's exclusive stand-in is a white couple).
Not only does that not even approach being an adequate reflection of the causes of the political and cultural downward spiral we've now been seeing for years, all across the Western world (don't get me wrong: stupidity definitely is one of them, but not due to "bad genes"); it's downright eugenic.
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