White American men without college degrees present a grave threat to the future of the Republic.

[Celerity]

We can't let them win again.

Win Or Lose, 'White Idiocracy' Isn't Going Anywhere Soon

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/win-or-lose-white-idiocracy-isnt



by Bob Cesca

WASHINGTON, DC -- America has a white idiocracy problem. Here’s what I mean by that. There’s a significant population of white, mostly Republican voters who’ve allowed themselves to be thoroughly deceived by one of the most ridiculous con-men in the history of ridiculous con-men. These are the idiocrats -- the disciples of Donald Trump who are on the verge of transforming the American republic into a fascist state helmed by an alliance of professional nincompoops and flimflam artists. While I was sitting here today like many of us, frantically refreshing the polling aggregators for the latest change in their election forecasts, I noticed the results of the latest CNN poll appear on Twitter via Jake Tapper’s account. The topline set of numbers continue to look solid for Joe Biden, even though I’m intensely concerned the legitimate results will be overturned through Trump’s ongoing theft and disruption. However, I noticed something else in the numbers that further calcifies one of my worst fears about the future of our country.

Link to tweet

Among white men without college degrees, Trump leads Biden by 38 points. Among white women without college degrees, the race is tied 49 to 49. Among all white voters without college degrees, Trump leads by 18 points. Yeah, yeah, I know. We’ve seen this before. The “poorly educated” vote. I hasten to note, however, that I’m not necessarily criticizing people who didn’t go to college -- that’s not the point. After all, there are still quite a few people without higher educations who support science and smart policymaking, and I know more than a few people without degrees who are smarter than all of us combined. That being said, the non-college voters who support Trump by such astronomical margins are likely doing so because they don’t know any better, making them easy targets for professional con-artists who market in disinformation and propaganda. And ultimately, we don’t need pollsters to tell us this. We see it every day in the video clips from Trump’s rallies. We see it in Frank Luntz’s focus groups. We see it playing out among some of our family members. Idiocracy is all around us, and I don’t think it’s going away.

There was a time when I thought maybe if Donald Trump gets publicly spanked in the election, not to mention during the subsequent investigations into his crimes, some of his loyalists would start to peel off out of sheer embarrassment and disappointment. I thought maybe if he and his Trumpism movement was humiliated enough, they’d skulk away. Clearly, that’s not going to happen. I underestimated the resilience of the Trump cult, and I only came to that realization after Trump recovered from COVID and began doing his rallies again. It’s quite obvious to anyone seeing the clips from Aaron Rupar and others that these people are willing to die for their master. Hell, he and his campaign staff left thousands of them stranded in the middle of an airport tarmac in Nebraska for hours and hours -- many of them had to be rushed to the hospital due to hypothermia. And I assure you, even the people who were hurt the most will gladly vote for him again.

The white idiocrats aren’t going away, win or lose. In fact, if the 2009 rise of the tea party was any indication, we’ll be hearing from the dingus brigade with even greater volume if Trump loses. You might recall how the tea party rallies emerged from the proto-Trump rallies held by Sarah Palin during the 2008 election. I wouldn’t be surprised if this gaggle of suckers stole the “Resistance” label, too, just to own the libs. And while it’ll be fun to mock their poorly-spelled signs and while we’ll all retweet clips of Fox News’s ongoing empowering of their defiant ignorance, the Red Hats still represent a formidable voting bloc that we’ll have to contend with during the 2022 midterms and especially the 2024 general election (if free elections still exist by then). Indeed, in 2024, there will be someone with the last name “Trump” on the ballot. If Trump wins next week, it’ll be his name because he won’t step aside. And if Trump loses, it’ll either be one of his doofus children or it’ll be Donald Trump himself who, if he’s not in prison, could try to run again. Sure, anything can happen and there aren’t any guarantees one way or another. But the Republican Party won’t give up its new voting base, and the idiocrats will continue to wield some power, hopefully as a marginalized opposition party, but almost certainly in state and local elections as well as the online shovel fights.

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[luv2fly]

1. More than a few white women as well

Just sayin'... It ain't all men.

[Celerity]

2. yes, but the massive margins are run up by the white males

[scarletwoman]

3. Lack of a college education wouldn't matter so much if K-12 education was improved.

Civics, history, humanities - art and music. No one should graduate from high school without knowing the structure of our government.

[Celerity]

4. good point, completely agree

[bdamomma]

5. tRump

loves the uneducated huh??? that's what he said. Now he is killing his base.

We need to stop this chaos.

[Jeebo]

6. I've been aware for a long time of this dark underbelly of the American electorate.

They're ignorant, naive, gullible, easily deceived, bigoted, and they've always been there. They were all there before President Orange Con Man came along. They just needed a grifter like him to take advantage of their stupidity. They're the "basket of deplorables" Hillary spoke of, although I wish she hadn't said it like that. And they'll still be there after their con man hero goes away.

-- Ron

[FakeNoose]

7. You forgot racist

And yes ... it's all true. Not all, but too many of them are just as you describe.

[smirkymonkey]

8. The uneducated are the problem. Especially uneducated men, because they seem to identify

with Trump's ridiculous sham false masculinity. These men basically have nothing going for them and Trump's toxic masculinity makes them feel powerful. But it does little else for them.

Instead of bettering themselves, they blame women, minorities, immigrants, gay people and other oppressed groups for making their lives miserable when they only have themselves to blame.

It must be of little comfort to know that their hero is not doing one goddamned thing to improve their lives for the better. They will continue to wallow in their bitterness and misery and never consider the real cause of their woes. They deserve everything they get.

There will be no change in this country until we devote more resources to our public education system. It should be on the top of the priority list.

[7wo7rees]

13. +1

The author goes out of his way to defend the ones who aren't necessarily dumber because of skipping college, but then applies the "dingus brigade" generalization. It's not just being easily duped that motivates them.

What Trump personifies for white men with no education track is a pushback against the inevitable: the loss of dominance of white maleness, when that's all it took to rule everything for the last 250 years in this country. The ride is over, fellas, and you know it. All they can do now is pout and blame and retaliate. Trump is their proxy poop-thrower.

Education mattered then, and matters now. Think it's expensive? Try ignorance. The sooner these men learn there's a new Sheriff in town (and she's Black), the better.

[Wicked Blue]

9. Another reason for free college educations nt

[Celerity]

10. agree nt

[Flaleftist]

11. And the reason Republicans oppose it.

[captain queeg]

12. I'm proud of my blue color roots, but while having no education

Doesn’t lead to being an ignorant asshole it certainly seems to help