Redfish
Diamond Member
America, you’re stupid: Donald Trump’s political triumph makes it official — we’re a nation of idiots
Trump's rise proves we're full of loud, illiterate and credulous people — and he's a mirror of them
I hate to have to say it, but the conclusion stares us in the face: We’re a stupid country, full of loud, illiterate and credulous people. Trump has marched straight to the nomination without offering anything like a platform or a plan. With a vocabulary of roughly a dozen words – wall, Mexicans, low-energy, loser, Muslims, stupid, China, negotiate, deals, America, great, again – he’s bamboozled millions of Americans. And it’s not just splenetic conservatives supporting Trump or your garden-variety bigots (although that’s the center of his coalition), it’s also independents, pro-choice Republicans, and a subset of Reagan Democrats.
This says something profoundly uncomfortable about our country and our process. A majority of Americans appear wholly uninterested in the actual business of government; they don’t understand it and don’t want to. They have vague feelings about undefined issues and they surrender their votes on emotional grounds to whoever approximates their rage. This has always been true to some extent, but Trump is a rubicon-crossing moment for the nation.
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The Founders of this country were Enlightenment-era elitists. They represented everything Tea Partiers and Trumpites abhor – free inquiry, progress, science, and reason. Humans being high primates, they wondered whether the average citizen could be trusted with a democracy, whether the fury of the mob could be contained. They were wrong about a lot of things – race in particular – but a Trump nomination, perhaps more than anything else, would be the ultimate vindication of their concerns.
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America, you’re stupid: Donald Trump’s political triumph makes it official — we’re a nation of idiots
Wrong, totally wrong. What it shows is that America is finally waking up to the corrupt establishment politicians in both parties. Americans are fed up with crooked pols who spend their time in DC making themselves rich with OUR money.
Trump threatens the power structure in both parties, that's why they are all scared shitless of him------------------and that is good for America.
Trump is trying as hard as he can to get Hillary elected while tapping into another money-making scheme at the same time.
:0) Of course you wouldn't know that.
^^^^^more left wing stupidity. Of course you wouldn't know that you are stupid. You are a liberal.