This guy predicted the Trumpster ... In 1998

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[Ford_Prefect]

1. Idiocracy predicted.

[Dworkin]

2. Useful

Hi.

Some people say that philosophy isn't any use for anything. I remember reading Rorty back in the 1980s (whilst at Uni) and being painfully aware that the language of Uni was alien to any language in the working class streets of my youth or even my parents house. My parents never understood, nor respected what I was doing with my life.

This is the societal gulf that Rorty presciently sees and describes. But philosophy has a use, double edged, of helping us to see what is going down, and that is at least something.

D.

[pbmus]

3. Well said, and welcome to du

[LisaL]

4. Hah.

This quote is almost 100 years old.

"One of Mencken's quotes widely circulated since the Trump upset is from a column he wrote 96 years ago predicting that, "On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."'

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-mencken-trump-20161119-story.html

[pbmus]

5. Moron surrounding himself with morons...

What could possibly go right...