Donald Trump on waterboarding: 'Even if it doesn't work they deserve it'

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42. Oh sure, American exceptionalism is BS here too

There are huge incurious reactionary masses in Korea, or Singapore, or Germany etc. True indeed. However those countries generally haven't spent three generations telling those masses that they are "smart" and that "book learning is just one kind of intellect" and that "common sense" (which is typically neither) is all they need to reach valid conclusions in complex inductive reasoning. What they get in return is knuckle-dragging hordes who at least defer to their respective pointy headed intellectuals in such situations. The Scottish independence vote is an example. All the beer-fueled sound and fury in the council estates screamed devolution, but enough people trusted those econ PhD's who said, in paraphrase, "are you nuts? Have you seen the tax outflows compared to government spending?" and all was well. How do you think that vote would go in Texas today?