I feel nothing but disgust for the people who do not know the ethical and legal conflicts

[randr]

this so called President is ignoring. You have to wonder how morally bankrupt they must be to not even have an inkling of basic ethics trampled by using ones elected office for personal profit.

[vi5]

1. They know.....

They just don't care. Or possibly worse yet they care but are too afraid of Trump and his twitter minions to do anything about it.

[Skittles]

2. they know

they just don't care as long as it's a rich white man

[rug]

3. In three weeks trump has supplied enough material for a 3 credit law school course on ethics.

[Warpy]

4. They have the conceit of following god's law first

and civil law is meaningless to many of them. The way they know god's law is being followed is by seeing rich men pulling all the strings. If a man is rich, he is obviously blessed by god and is carrying out god's work.

Rich man's Calvinist determinism and prosperity theology have told them so.

This is what we're up against.

[anarch]

5. in part, I blame our education system

it's unfortunate that the bullshit testing-proficiency approach has been allowed to hold sway for so long now. And even before then, they basically stopped teaching civics quite a while ago.

This (by which I mean utter corruption) seems like such a basic concept, though...I think a great many people are just utterly incurious and apathetic, and that apathy is actively encouraged by those who would (and do) take advantage of people and profit from their ignorance.

[JI7]

6. They are happy a racist white guy is president

And even better that he is trying to get rid of"those people".

[ecstatic]

7. Sadly, that's why I have a feeling this "democracy" is coming to an end

Since a well informed electorate is pretty much required to keep a democracy going.