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Texin

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15. It's more a product of resentment of all things intellectual.

Sun May 26, 2019, 10:45 AM

May 2019

His base and he share that disdain. It's one of the reasons that GWB was able to win* twice. Americans have been groomed for about the past forty years to be suspicious of and disdainful of "pointy-headed elites", and those in their vaunted "ivory towers". In other words, people have been groomed to be uncritical of what they hear, encouraged not to ask questions, to not challenge accepted "truths", to praise the "common man" and despise and distrust scholars and scholastic achievement and basic intelligence to the point they won't accept professional and scientific information about anything.

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Trump's inability to write is NOT a sign of dementia. It's a sign of something worse. [View all] DetlefK May 2019 OP

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To it show that he's just a dumb fuck who was too lazy in school to learn basic things... brush May 2019 #29

And yet we are expected to "respect" the walking pustule. nt Atticus May 2019 #2

The way I see it is that trump is allowed to be what he is because of his base. People who are wasupaloopa May 2019 #3

Yes, I think that eight years of a black man in the Presidency... Girard442 May 2019 #6

Trump's base (and the # of people comprising it) is the real problem, of course. MH1 May 2019 #10

One thing that shocked me was how many Trumpsters had never voted before. LuckyLib May 2019 #33

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This can't be true. Scarsdale May 2019 #4

one of those for whom fucking up has had no real adverse consequences for him. KG May 2019 #5

it's kind of interesting to look at NJCher May 2019 #8

"Melanie". It doesn't hit closer to home than that. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2019 #7

Right? PJMcK May 2019 #12

He is a total asshole. Norms and standards are irrelevant to him. nt NCjack May 2019 #9

This is my take. He's not insane. klook May 2019 #19

I think it is more that he's had so many people sucking up to him in his life that demigoddess May 2019 #28

Great Point. klook May 2019 #32

I suspect that his parents didn't praise him very much Fortinbras Armstrong May 2019 #36

He has not been inconvenienced by them loyalsister May 2019 #39

I think most of those things PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #11

He doesn't give a fuck about anything but himself vlyons May 2019 #13

I love that you mentioned the meaning of "Hell is other people". smirkymonkey May 2019 #14

He makes sure to hold court so other people will grovel to him lunatica May 2019 #24

It's more a product of resentment of all things intellectual. Texin May 2019 #15

So true and we all pay the price appalachiablue May 2019 #16

from Frank Zappa 90-percent May 2019 #34

I have a masters from Harvard Fortinbras Armstrong May 2019 #37

I think it's a sign of dyslexia Poiuyt May 2019 #17

he's got a very bad case of sex on the wrong brain certainot May 2019 #18

Trump's delivery is of a stand up comic. CaptYossarian May 2019 #20

"My Daddy gave me lots of money, so I called myself smart and just ignored school" struggle4progress May 2019 #21

He is the definition of a Sociopath. nt UniteFightBack May 2019 #22

He's also the definition of a narcissist. n/t Fortinbras Armstrong May 2019 #38

Agreed. nt UniteFightBack May 2019 #40

Excellent observations. It's a collective insanity. sandensea May 2019 #25

You could be a black tumor of a human, it don't matter...... Mopar151 May 2019 #26

Well, THAT sure doesn't cheer me up! Honestly, when I was reading this, PatrickforO May 2019 #27

His drooling base adores all of this about Trump. That's how "those people" are...nt Progressive Jones May 2019 #30

Just remember, dear hearts, Haggis for Breakfast May 2019 #31

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