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Originally Posted by JesseQuinn
This goes beyond Trump btw, anti-intellectualism is a time-honored tradition in your nation. There's a reason why peeps on the US campaign stump pose with guns instead of books. There's a reason why such an obscene amount of cash is needed to even get a shot at the brass ring.
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I agree with some of that. But...how is Trump an "anti-intellectual"?
For fuck's sake...look at what the idiots in charge of the U.S. have done to our country in the past 60 or so years! If having war after war, a giant military budget, and being in debt at over 18 TRILLION dollars is "intellectual"...then what the fuck!
Trump is well educated, world traveled, and very, very successful. Lifetime/career bureaucrats are not exclusively fit to run the executive branch of the govt.
What Trump represents is an actual EXECUTIVE.
And if you look at the polling data...Trump is winning over everyone in one main category: The Economy
That is not mindless or anti-intellectual in any way shape or form.
Those of us who run successful businesses would tell you straight up that what you perceive as Trump's brashness is actually a necessary personality trait to being successful.
Or as my grandfather once told me..."Son if you don't think you're the best, then how can you expect anyone else to?"
Your analysis is way off on why he's in front.
And a grand example of an elitist/snobbish looking down your nose as if you are superior kind of attitude.
People are sick of that shit and are looking for someone to not lie to them and not suck the cock of the established powers that be.
Trump fits that bill.
That you can't see that and only see him as an "Ugly" American is your own bias and inability to view what he represents with an open mind.
What you see as "brash"...people see as a guy who isn't taking any shit.
And if you couldn't see that Fox News was doing everything they could think of to derail him in that debate...then you just aren't interested in making an honest observation.