How's it going where you are? [View all]
I hang out at McDonalds for the free Internet. I get a pretty good feel for the local Zeitgeist. I live in a big retirement area, and most of the people are older, more conservative, cranky, etc. School bond measures never pass here because all the retired people vote them down. They refuse to support public anything. You get the picture.
Anyway, hoards of people around here have been discussing the Republican debates, and they are so favorably impressed I have to wonder if they watched the Republican debates on some other planet. They love that plain speaking, common sense, conventional wisdom stuff. They give glowing reviews to any candidate who hits them with the old, "You know better than the experts!" They seem to believe someone who dropped out of high school to work in the lumber mill knows more about global climate change than someone with a PhD in climatology. If you need to track the decay of an element in the lanthanide chain, you would ask your Chevy dealer, right?
Anyway, I'm getting the idea many of my fellow citizens don't trust smart people. Ben Carson is smart, but he's willing to act stupid, so people forgive him for being a neurosurgeon. The rest of them don't have to pretend. Does anyone else notice this? Is this the way people talk in your community?
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