It's a dangerous mistake to assume that "uncultured" means "stupid", but these people conflate education with intelligence constantly.
I've been thinking lately about a reality TV show called Timber Kings. Watched it on Netflix with the missus and we had lots of fun watching this guy (8th grade education, owner of a mill and logging operation) overcome seemingly impossible hurdles, day or night, sea or land, just to get some wood onto market. He'd be there running between three ancient logging machines by himself to unload a truck or whatever other crazy thing he needed to do.
He made his own road down a mountainside and built a floating dock out of scrap sewer lines to haul barges of timber out of his claim.
A track fell off of a loader and he just used the logs he was hauling as a counterweight to keep it balanced so he could load the fucking truck and get out of there. Those are just a few off the top of my head. And he's got machinery everywhere. Thousands of tons easily.
That's not to mention all of the friends, family members and business associates who had a diverse set of skills and interests and access to their own heavy machinery. I have no idea what that guy thinks of all this, but if men like him decide it's time to stick their thumbs in the government's eye the bugmen are going to learn real quick who the real fools around here are.