First women, then gays, now CyberTrucks. Where does it end?
China and Russia will sit on the sidelines for WWIII at this pace
The only characteristic of stupidity is being misinformed? Everyone is misinformed to some extent. There are myriad aspects to intelligence. We're all imperfect monkeys.
While acknowledging that Trump voters are emotional and fear-prone, they're not entirely stupid and generally not cultists, probably, maybe. Can we have some sliver of hope? The ones I know are certainly not stupid but are tragically misinformed and savants of confirmation bias. I've also noticed that they care a great deal. It seems more like a target misalignment problem than a broken turret.
Theory: this is late-stage capitalism, where the working class are so exploited and overworked that they don't know who to be angry at. Someone like Trump comes along and (falsely) mirrors their anger and they unwittingly roll out the red carpet for a fascist. I'm really hopeful that once they see what they actually voted for, they'll not be so welcoming. Trump 1.0 was absolutely nothing compared to what Trump 2.0 is going to be. There are way more puppeteers who are way more prepared this time. Shit's going down and their constituents are not the ones to piss off. Just feasting on popcorn here.
I'm seriously hopeful that the people who have historically given into this lie are wising up.
I understand the rage completely. As an American, I have lost hair for it. The tiny optimist in me believes that these people have a limit. They will never apologize for anything, but we can hope that they'll trend more toward sanity once they discover how fucked Trumpism is. Many of them are fucking idiots, but a lot of them aren't.