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Originally Posted by Adder
Nope. I'm an elitist prick, but I'm not that much of an elitist prick.
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I'm not elitist. I'm pragmatic. I can tell you why the average voter is suspect in one word: Population.
Watch the first ten minutes of
Idiocracy.
Or wait for a morning hearing on some injunction while the judge disposes of his or her "family court" issues (the ones that enrage him or her to the point of turning bright red).
The "common" person includes a ton of wonderful, smart, thoughtful people. But far more, it includes idiots. Clueless, hopeless idiots who wander through life unaware of any of its complexities or obligations. (And we must state that, without apology. And this includes historically disenfranchised Americans. An idiot's an idiot regardless of the reason, or the idiot's race, or socioeconomic background, and an idiot should be ignored. There is no "underdog handicap" because one is from a disadvantaged background, whatever that may be.)
BUT
Idiots. Have. Kids.
This skill they master. (Rewatch
Idiocracy here.) They have issue, loads of it, and most of that issue is headed nowhere. I see them meander through the hall of the courthouse, and they're largely hopeless as they’ll never acquire the soft skills to ascend.
Americans are considerably like American cheese. It's got some great taste points, but the shit makes you sick. And the complaints, from all of them, Trumpworld to CHAZ, are largely diversions, deflections.
We need more immigration, yesterday. And we need a bit more nasty and direct pragmatism as well. No more of this trash-think from soft-headed professors and apologists for the right or left. If you've not had metrics applied to you (and few academics have), your ideas should be considered, as abstract ideas always are, but you should not be allowed at the Big Kids' policy meetings. Nor should the views of any Wall Street-funded think tank assholes.
