> voting for someone cynically exploit their ignorance?
and the "they're stupid" argument.
Talk to real life ordinary Trump voters and see what they really feel. Have a long chat with them so they're comfortable with you and not making up quick defensive excuses. Real common people, not an extreme example dug up by the media.
I don't but they're generally disadvantaged people or from places with a bleak economic future. So it's probably something to do with that. Maybe feeling left behind and looked down on by the rest of the country? Emotional reasons like that are very commonly reasons for people being unable to see the other's point of view. They don't articulate easily and don't translate into simple measures like money.
Before you write off 50 million people as "seriously disturbed", you should find out their motives. Not the cherry-picked mockery of them you see on social media, but their more common motives. To make such a crude judgement as you did, you have to be ignoring some huge factor. If you conclude that factor is "they're stupid" or "they're evil", then you haven't found it. This applies generally to many controversial ideas. Being unable to see it from any other point of view doesn't make you right.
A crude way to estimate embodied energy is just from the cost. It had to take less than $1.25 worth of energy to produce and distribute. That might have been something cheap and polluting like heat from coal, but it's still not much. You could look up the cost of that in India or China or wherever it's cheapest to get the worst case amount of energy or CO2 emissions.
Alternatively, plastic takes about 100 kJ/g to produce. So if the bulb has 1 g of plastic, that's about 0.03 kWh of energy. Nothing compared to the savings in electricity using it.
You're using the "they're evil" argument.
> voting for someone cynically exploit their ignorance?
and the "they're stupid" argument.
Talk to real life ordinary Trump voters and see what they really feel. Have a long chat with them so they're comfortable with you and not making up quick defensive excuses. Real common people, not an extreme example dug up by the media.