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Re:The Pitchforks Are Coming for Us Plutocrats (2014) by MrMcCall on Friday December 06, 2024 @12:19AM (#42336589)
Idiocy is just plain rampant. The main problem with the stupid is that they're too stupid to know how stupid they are, and usually so overconfident that they think they're smart.

"Imagine how dumb the average American is, and then remember that half of them are stupider than that!" --George Carlin (paraphrase)

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Re:The Pitchforks Are Coming for Us Plutocrats (2014) by euroderf on Friday December 06, 2024 @03:51AM (#42337753)
Related: "Donald Trump is a stupid person's idea of a smart person."
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Re:The Pitchforks Are Coming for Us Plutocrats (2014) by jfengel on Friday December 06, 2024 @12:56PM (#42342226)
That accusation has been leveled at a lot of politicians, often Republicans. But I'm not sure it's true in this case.

I think Donald Trump is a stupid person's idea of a mean person, who's mean to the people they want to be mean to.

We had something similar in George W. Bush. Nobody thought he was smart. People often said that he was preferable to have a beer with. That hardly seems like a good reason to be President, but it was remarkably popular. Like Trump, he did eventually win an election by popular vote, not just the Electoral College.

I have a dark suspicion that for a great many of his voters, they think he's in fact quite stupid. And that's what they want.

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