They love masking. They love forcing masking. They love vaccines, they love forcing vaccines.
They love news of new deadly variants. They become angry for words of hope.
The only time I've seen these people angry with Biden was when he declared Covid to be over.
Really, why do you think they so eagerly embrace something so negative?
what's "smart"? many that we as a society tend to talk of as smart have great recall abilities. in other words, a great ability to regurgitate what someone told you, whether truthful or not. I'm not saying you or I are smarter, instead that he may not be any smarter than me or you. If I were to define intelligence though, critical thinking ability would be high on my list of requirements. sounds like your friend might lack this ability
Intelligence is the ability to learn and comprehend. The deep understanding of a topic is what truly matters. That can be faked by rote memorization in many fields of study.
Critical thinking thinking is a different skill entirely. We used to call "educated" people that had no common sense "book smart" to describe this same thing. They were able to regurgitate the things they had memorized, but in every other way they usually acted like complete idiots.
Current education is highly overrated. Hands-on knowledge and experience, which truly demonstrates both comprehension and the ability to put it into practical use, is what really matters in just about everything.