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That's certainly the liberal line. I've seen conservatives say the exact same thing about liberals.
"Critical Thinking" gets billed as an objective analysis, but inevitably mutates into "if you don't agree with me, you didn't think about the issue hard enough".
Ayn Rand's Objectivists and Sam Bankman-Fried's Longtermists have been beating the drum on "critical thinking" being deficit for their respective careers, and look where it got them.
That's not even remotely true.
And herein is the problem. You've landed on a scapegoat that helps justify your disgust for "average voters". But you're starting from a premise of other people being inferior. And you're working backwards into supporting claims that back up your gut instinct.