Brooks File: Why are the RUC/Syndicate Unintelligent?

It has been a whle since last I posted. The Navy Tower has been a little bit hectic, especially with Popeye Jr. freaking out over everything. I have been talking to Zoronga and Elmer Hanks for a while on what we should do. I have been trying to convince them for me to help find Jenny but no such luck. All we know is that she is somewhere inside the Tower. But that isn't the important part.

I want to do something different with my Brooks File right now. I want to write out some theories on recent behavior going on with the RUC and Indigo Syndicate. Well, not recent but you know what I mean. I am talking about the RUC and Indigo Syndicate lack common sense and intelligence to such a comical level. Even if many tyrannical armies have their share of idiots, both groups take this to outright over the top levels. I do have a few theories on this phenomenon.

## Brooks File: The Idiot theory

I am trying to professional as I can here but there is no way to word this without it being a mouthful except for this. While it is easy to just say "Well, the RUC & Indigo Syndicate are just morons, end of story", I want to look deeper into this. The Radioactive Uber Clan and Indigo Syndicate have a ton of unintelligent and insane members in their groups, with only the Syndicate having more competent members, a majority of them being former Republic members. While having less intelligent members in a group is to be expected, both groups take it to an uncomfortably weird level.

I have seen various members not only act erratic and do stuff that even the most insane people normally wouldn't do but various soldiers and members get themselves killed through the dumbest ways. Whether from forgetting to put in Supply Lines during the war, forgetting where they put mines(sometimes stepping on them immediately after placing them), or in the case of Peter Griffin, pointing his weapon right at himself and accidentally killing himself. There was even a case that some soldiers drowned in rain puddles.

Let's not forget cases like Popeye and Popeye Jr. Somehow that side of the Popeye family seems to lack a ton of intelligence. You can chalk it up to a mental disorder or just sheer idiocy but I feel there is something more to this. Reading up Popeye Jr's birth reports, supposedly Olivia and the hospital thought he was a stillborn because he didn't breath. Turns out Popeye Jr. forgot how to breath and in some cases, he forgets how to eat or breath. Popeye himself didn't experience such things, albeit he had a bit of anger issues as a child. This makes me wonder how bad it'd be if Popeye Jr. has a son of his own.

I believe that the Republics propaganda may have something to do with this. They prioritize nationalism, loyalty, and power over education and logical reasoning, most of the time. While the Republic does try to balance their propaganda with actual education and survival, mostly to not raise suspicion, certain parts of the Republic are more in your face with their propaganda. Depending on where Popeyes family lived before his parents death, there is a good chance they were in some of the more heavily propaganda areas. The ones where their media are blatant about what they say and is in your face enough to permanently alter not only their minds, but the minds of even their unborn children.

You can argue that the RUC's and Syndicates hyper nationalism, cult of personality, and overconfidence in themselves is just an exaggerated end result of what happens with the Republics national propaganda warping the minds of people. And while Popeye himself was not intelligent by any means or a good leader, one trait he did have was finding likeminded people to feed what he said to them for his cause. Remember the "Great Power" within Ruben when he found and recruited Rubens Nuts after he ruined his company, for example? While Ruben was already a terrible person to begin with, all it took was Popeye saying the right words to Ruben to get him to join the RUC. Whose to say a majority of the RUC was recruited all because Popeye was in the right place and able to say the stuff they wanted to hear to permanently recruit them in?

Popeye Jr. is a bit harder to gauge since it seems like a majority of his influence comes from who his father was. The moment he finds the right person to recruit to the Syndicate, their intelligence goes into the negatives, even worse than his father. There's also the fact that Popeye Jr. flaunts his wealth in peoples face, making greedy people join the Syndicate without much issue. Popeye Jr. may not have the 'charisma' as his father but between Republic propaganda, his fathers legacy, and his wealth, he manages to get at least a good percentage of people who see himself as a messiah figure. If there is only one thing that is consistently good about this family, it's they know how to get even the already unintelligent and impressionable to join their sides through different reasons.

There's also the fact that supposedly the Republic doesn't put much effort into Mental health care. There's people in the Republic who genuinely believe mental health issues do not exist and want the funding to go to more militaristic pursuits. Between them not wanting a budget for education and mental health, it creates situations what you see with both organizations.

We should at least be thankful that Republics way of indoctrinating people to follow their mindset resulted in most of these groups not being very intelligent. If they prioritized actual education and mental health before anything else, whose to say what the RUC and Syndicate could be like now. I know I am rambling on about this but with how both organizations and their people act, it is clearly an over the top end result of years or even decades of the Republics skewered priorities of where their funding and education lie.

If you have any theories about why them and their followers are reckless and lack intelligence, let me know. This is all theories I have been writing down and I may be wrong. I just feel like there is more to this than meets the eye.