Trump Says ‘Smart People Don’t Like Me’

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Trump Says ‘Smart People Don’t Like Me’ - Lemmy.World

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As… ridiculously fucking stupid as this sounds, it is what his base wants to hear.

They don’t see “smart people” and think “people with an above average IQ” (and they sure as fuck don’t understand what “average” means). They see “intellectuals” and “college students” and “pink haired people”. Which is exactly what they want to hate.

They desperate for the world to be simple so that their simple, “elegant” solution and “clean, traditional living” or whatever the hell else they got going on is justified. But also they’ll ignore any times that indigineous are right about things like caring for the environment in simple, clean ways.

Put it short, they just want to be validated without putting any work in. Saw too many movies they thought were documentaries.

They desperate for the world to be simple so that their simple, “elegant” solution...

Tbh, that's most people, most of the time.

“Desperate” though? Most people aren’t out there living in a false reality in order to accomplish it.
Our problem is, despite shocking "alternate realities" occasionally bursting through our own carefully cultivated protective bubbles, we still refuse to acknowledge that people are, in fact, doing just that, and it doesn't matter if they're the majority. They're the loudest and most persistent, and that's what got us where we are. HRC was so confident the Don couldn't win, and I expressed alarm and said he was going to win and people poo-poohed and hand waved my concerns aside. And here we are and people are still too busy looking back, being mad an unwinnable candidate lost, while Charlie Kirk is dead, the left and LGBTQ are being banned, and Nick "I fucked your movement” Fuentes ideals are still winning.