Conservative65
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There's one kind, the human one, you racist jerk and dupe. Sorry you don't make the grade.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
For almost 8 years one of your own kind has been in the White House. 95% of your own people voted for him twice. I'm curious how blacks can continue to support someone of their own kind that holds the highest office in the land while blacks still live in poverty, graduate high school less, use food stamps on a rate of 1 out of every 3 1/2, have an unemployment rate 2x that of whites, etc.. Please explain. I thought having one of your own at that level would mean better results.
Not when certain groups are given protected status.
When the government dictates differences, you can't make that argument. No wonder you were a teacher. If you had to actually work you would have starved to death.