How STUPID Can You Be?
I’ve taken some flack here for referring to Republican voters, especially Trump supporters, as being STUPID.
Well, what else do you call people who demonstrate their stupidity at every opportunity? How else do you characterize those who act stupidly, vote stupidly, and continue to support a pResident who plans to make them victims of their own stupidity?
What other category do the stupid fall into – other than the unbelievably, undeniably, STUPID beyond all imagining category?
Watching snippets of Trump’s rally in Nashville tonight is the perfect case in point. People waving “Drain the Swamp” signs – apparently unaware that Trump has stocked his swamp with the monied establishment people he campaigned on ridding the government of.
People wearing Trump hats and T-shirts – all bearing a “Made in China” label – still believing that the man who had those items manufactured offshore is really interested in bring jobs back to the US.
People applauding a so-called president whose ties to their country’s sworn enemy, Russia, are as apparent as they are undeniable.
People cheering the idea that preventing Muslims from entering the country will make them “safe”, while ignoring the fact that there has been ZERO “terrorist” activity from those who have emigrated from the nations Trump is trying to ban.
What we as Democrats are up against is not a matter of having the “wrong message” to appeal to thinking, common-sense voters. We are not up against voters who think our candidates are too establishment, too status-quo, or that we as a party are not offering what Americans want and need.
What we are up against is STUPIDITY – stupidity that is being nurtured by the GOP, promoted by FOX-News, encouraged by on-air RW nutjobs, and validated by fake news outlets like Breitbart.
Do I have the answer as to how to outwit, outplay and outlast the stupidity that’s out there? If I did, I wouldn’t be posting on DU – I’d be too busy collecting my seven-figure consultancy fee from the PTB in our party.
All I know is this: It is stupidity that is our greatest enemy. It is stupidity that causes people to consistently vote against their own interests. It is stupidity that led voters to elect a proven liar to the WH on the basis that he was ”trustworthy”. It is stupidity that causes people to believe that a man who can’t handle an SNL sketch is capable of handling the clear-headed decision-making that being a POTUS demands. It is stupidity that brought millions of hard-working Americans to the polls to vote for a man whose entire life is built on cheating hard-working Americans out of their money.
It is the same kind of stupidity that insists that global climate change is a hoax, that our children should be taught the Bible in place of proven science, and that the only reason Trump’s campaign was communicating with Russians was to swap borscht recipes.
It’s not the heat, people – it’s the STUPIDITY. And ignoring it, denying it, excusing it, or calling it by any other name doesn’t get us anywhere.
It IS what it is – and make no mistake, it IS what we are fighting against.
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