Posted on 02/24/2016 4:18:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Trump's rise proves we're full of loud, illiterate and credulous people -- and he's a mirror of them
"I love the poorly educated." -- Donald Trump
Before any votes were cast, when Donald Trump was the theoretical front-runner, the optimists preached patience. Just wait, they said. This will blow over. He's a clown, a huckster, a TV personality. There's no way he can win. It's just not possible.
Well, it's not only possible - it's likely.
Trump won again in Nevada on Tuesday night, by a massive margin, and he may well sweep the Super Tuesday states. If that happens, and it's the most probable outcome at this point, the race is effectively over. Trump will have won the nomination of one our two major parties, and he'll have done it with extraordinary ease.
I hate to have to say it, but the conclusion stares us in the face: We're a stupid country, full of loud, illiterate and credulous people. Trump has marched straight to the nomination without offering anything like a platform or a plan. With a vocabulary of roughly a dozen words - wall, Mexicans, low-energy, loser, Muslims, stupid, China, negotiate, deals, America, great, again - he's bamboozled millions of Americans. And it's not just splenetic conservatives supporting Trump or your garden-variety bigots (although that's the center of his coalition), it's also independents, pro-choice Republicans, and a subset of Reagan Democrats....
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Their wittle heads are exploding.....
We’re a stupid country, full of loud, illiterate and credulous people who used to vote democrat. What happened??
Wrong. The idiots are the ones who voted for Obama. Twice!
Their tears make me happy.
Unlike the brilliant democrats, would think either a felony committing nasty Marxist witch and/or a communist old man would make a great president.
Public Education!
Insofar as Obama was elected twice I am inclined to concur with Salon on this point. But I also have hope because only 1/3 of the population voted for him last time around, and many of them regret it sorely. We have, however, cheapened the voting process by not requiring citizenship credentials and testing them like we test people before we grant them a license to drive. The fastest way to bring down a civilized country is to grant power to the ignorant and apathetic.
I wonder if Salon has any comment on the millions of Sanders voters who ONLY support him because he has promised them free stuff, free cars, houses, ipads, health care, college, and ponies
Well at least the people who write for and read "Salon" are.
Look who got hisself elected..............
TWICE!!
Of course we’re idiots.
Gosh, maybe if they keep calling me stupid and racist I’ll eventually vote for them!
“Trump’s political triumph makes it official—we’re a nation of idiots”
Now we’re going to be just as in-your-face about reversing everything that this gay Moslem Communist has put into place.
I guess they’d be happier if we continued to vote for the people who’ve gotten us $19 trillion in debt to a man who knows how to become a billionaire.
And WE are the idiots here?
Trump drives all the right people nuts.
Sorry, your a little late.
The fact that Americans are stupid was decided conclusively when they elected Obama, not just once ... but TWICE!!
WTH America???!?!?
And these are the same libtards that gave that Gruber guy a total pass on calling the American people idiots and gullible when it came to that wonderful legislation that is named obamacare...
I don’t support Trump. I don’t support any of them.
BUT, I don’t think people are idiots for supporting him. I think they are angry, and they see someone who seems to share their anger. They see a successful business man. They see someone who gives them hope.
There are a lot worse things that could happen to this country. Trump is far from the top of that list.
0bama got voted in. Twice. So I guess they’re right.
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