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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Boy- those down-to-earth, average to low intelligence really stuck it to us. They stuck it to America and their own safety because they believed the snake oil salesman.

Now we have an anti-vaxxer for public health who will take us back to the 1800s. Remember Polio, Measles, Small Pox, a flu epidemic before vaccines?

We have a pedophile with less than 2 years of law experience for Attorney General.

We have a conspiracy theorist, friends with Putin and other dictators for our National Security.

We have a President using his private security to vet these people since they’d never pass an FBI background check.  And using his office to exact revenge for selfish purposes.

I don’t think intelligence is what broke America. These people were full on Trump regardless.  And, let’s see where that gets us.

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No, it's precisely what broke America. The idea that nice people like you are so above the country folk broke America.

The arms race of activities and curated lives for some does break America.

Some PTAs raising 2mm in a year and some raising 3k breaks America.

When my grandmother was the first person in her family to go to college since... well, since our family came to America in the 1600s, there was a sense of a populist intelligence. People wanted to read classics, experience culture, and there was a sense of optimism. Both of my grandmothers went to college, read their Steinbeck and Shakespeare, took music lessons, and sent their kids the college after them. They were never particularly ambitious, but the idea of being educated because; it was part of a civil society was huge.

I suspect there's a groundswell out there in Trump country where that's still true. Although my sense is, going by relatives and what I've seen on twitter, the "classics" are being framed in a way that seems suspiciously right wing. [/quote]

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