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The rest of us have to be dragging them along, kicking and screaming, into the future with any and all progress made by forward moving humans - because they are simply too stupid to exist.
Yet they do.
We move ahead and they kick and scream about how unfair it is to them. Yet there they are, oozing inside the open door (won't someone please close the door already!) - still stupid. Still existing. Still kicking. Still screaming.
Think of the direct benefits to society that cooperation brings about - how knowledge benefits people. The improvements that come with knowledge and understanding.
Apparently, it also gives the stupid a handhold on survival, no matter how far removed they are from the source. A benefit to us inures them with the same benefits, no matter how little they make use of it. No matter how much they whine about it.
It's the stupid that will always be with us.
And it's because of who we are - open to people changing. Open to people learning better. Open to human kindness and decency. Open to the boundless human spirit.
They have been given chances - all day everyday - every-fucking-day they have the chance to learn, to read a book, to stop letting Fox and Trump tell them how and what to think.
We seek, they retreat. We clear our way into the future. They simply dig in.
They are stuck in fight mode and have clipped their wings in the process. They fight the future. They fight change - neither battle they can win and then they blame the "other" for it - but never blaming the people actually making life worse for them.
But none of that means we have to validate their stupid. None of that means we have to tolerate the intolerable. None of that puts their stupid on the same footing as facts and science.
None of it means I have to try and understand them when they don't even bother trying to understand themselves.
They simply don't care. They only know they don't feel special.
Well, boofuckinghoo.
I've had it hard too. Doesn't give me the right to be stupid.
That was a rant - in the heat of the moment. Tomorrow, after time for reflection, I might just decide to say (about Trump supporters) "Oh, fuck those whiny asswipes" and be done with it.
ETA: an "of". 'Cause sometimes I'm sloppy in my ranting.
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