Kornbluth who wrote the story it's largely based on (The Marching Morons) had the excuse of extreme youth and alienation for his intellectual elitism. His story is much more explicit about the solution: fire all the dummies into space. It's much more obvious in the story that Dysgenics is Eugenics.
I think there's not a good heart in this kind of art.
I particularly enjoyed the role of President Camacho who refreshingly portrayed a rational, somewhat sensible leader, who, at the end of the day, listens to reason.
People rally to find the smartest person to help them with a real problem, give him the resources necessary to solve it and then he solved it and life improves
That’s a utopian fantasy if I’ve ever heard of it