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Originally Posted by JesseQuinn
Please stop with the coherent analysis of his ineptitude and the underlying reasons for his popularity, you're ruining it for the rest of us
For real though, the post-debate polls aren't just a victory for peeps who value stream of consciousness brash/ignorant/tourette-style remarks and hit-the-amygdala-sound-bites over logic, wisdom and reason, the results are an indictment of your whole constitutional republic
Trump serves as a mirror for a specific segment of the American population, and the view is pretty ugly. If I think about it for too long my head will explode, that people can perceive off-the-cuff ignorant remarks as 'straight-shooter' truth and value that instead of demanding more from their prospective leaders. Ethics, honesty, wisdom, egalitarian leadership, all that kooky ish.
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.
Looking at the US from outside, y'all have a system that's irrevocably broken as fuck. Due to the set up of your campaign system top echelon money and power alway win, people don't. if I was a US citizen I'd hold my nose and vote democrat but I wouldn't be pleased about it; to me the choice between the lesser of two evils is not an acceptable range of viable options.
No wonder almost half the people in your nation can't be bothered to show up at the polls.
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lol probably Canadian, where a school teacher is the leader of one of the major parties. school teachers rank about as low as it gets for raw brain power among college students.
People who consider themselves intellectuals rarely are, what they are is people who read what real intellectuals write and transfer that intellectualism unto themselves simply because they can read and parrot what they've read. People who like comedy often are the same, enjoying comedy doesn't make you funny, it makes you somebody who can recognize a smart comedian.
Politics THANKFULLY doesn't attract real intellectuals, intellectuals couldn't run a Subway franchise. They do have their place in the world, their ideas both good and terrible influence the rest of us.