The problem with Trump supporters isn't even that they're stupid, although a lot of them obviously are, its that they're morally underdeveloped.
These are people who can't tell the difference between political correctness and basic common decency. They confuse bullying and posturing with strength. They think patriotism is yelling USA and watching the Superbowl. 'Telling it straight' to them means telling them what they want to hear.
They honestly think that if they are to succeed in life others need to lose, and they want to build a country around that zero-sum vision.
Stupid people will always be with us. What decent people in this country need to start asking is how we let so many of our fellow citizens get so detatched from what are our common values. What has happened to our moral education in this country that it now fails to reach so many?
Is it the decline of the union movement? Too many big box stores? I'm open to suggestions.
These are people who don't even the have the courage to admit that they're racists. At least when my grandparents said something racist they had the decency to say it directly, there was none of this hemming and hawing and coded language. How have we created a nation with so many cowards?
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