Well, you super intelligent Liberals have lost just about every election even for dog catcher as of late. I can see where being so intelligent has really paid off for you fools.
You make your argument for stupid people to hold the reigns of government quite well.
Tell us genius... what is it that makes you oh so smarter than us simpletons?
Because I don't see it.
I think it probably futile but I will attempt an answer for you.
You misinterpret these things. I don't look down on you or anyone else as 'inferior', but as simply ignorant. Ignorance just means lack of knowledge, even though that word has a negative connotation in this culture and is usually equated with 'less than'.
I do not go to a doctor and tell them they are full of shit. They are pretty damn smart and I am ignorant of a lot of what they know. So I defer to their knowledge. That in no way makes me less than them. When a scientist comes out and says the Earth is 24, 860* miles around, or the sun is approx. 92 million miles away, or that there are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy alone I defer to their knowledge as they, and
they means tens of thousands of PH.D's over the decades, have studied such things their entire lives. The same with Global Warming, they aren't guessing and they are uber-smart people.
That also doesn't mean you view any of these people as infallible. This is why the studied conclusion of tens of thousands or even, as in the case in medicine, millions of people over a hundred years is important. A knowledge of the history of something is as important as current knowledge. You see where things started, what mistakes were made, and the corrections that resulted revealing fact and truth. Knowledge of human history is in fact the most important thing to study and understand as it is riddled with the most horrible and heinous conflagrations perpetrated on entire nations or the entire human population by one or a very few individuals. Democracies generally die in their infancy. And they have all died, all of them. And many times it is not by a violent invasion that ends it at once, but by the wrong person manipulating their way into power, or fooling enough people to put him/her into power. I post up quotes from tyrants and dictators of the past for a reason, they are telling us what to look for and what to avoid like the plague out of their own mouths.
“I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.”
That is a quote from Adolph Hitler. Why would HE think this so valuable an observation? He is saying out loud that the masses, 'the many', can be swayed and manipulated - that was his strength, manipulating normally sane people into insanity - by the use of emotion. There are many quotes, images, films, essays, books written on his use of the plea to emotion to get people to do what he wanted them to do even against their own best interest. Men like him have studied and know how to, sometimes with the most gentle of nudges, move entire populations into an emotional state that leaves them easy to guide in any direction he sees fit. We know the results.
Out of the 17 Republican candidates that were put forth I can say without question that though I would have a real issue with their politics, I don't think any one of them would have been a real threat to this democracy. Trump is. American democracy has lasted way beyond what is a normal life for a democracy. And it is as fragile as all the rest were. You can't afford to allow even one man that shows any of the tendencies of the worst dictators in history anywhere near the reigns of power. Ever. It is too risky.
You think I and others care about personalities and all the other superfluous nonsense that plays out on television and online. I don't. Much of what I do
here is just to entertain myself and I admit I sometimes engage in hyperbole and overtly sarcastic humor. But I know, as do millions in this country and hundreds of millions around the world that America is now at the moment of it's greatest peril. And the rest of the world understands that once American democracy ends, and it will end as all democracies do it is just a matter of when, then the world descends into the new Dark Ages. Just as when Rome fell and there was no world power to keep the warlords of the world contained. The Dark Ages lasted 700 years. 700 years with an Earth dominated by Kim Jung Uns and Adolph Hitlers.
You can't take the chance. One man is of no consequence compared to what can be lost. If Trump were to die of a heart attack tomorrow the entire world would take a breath and say 'thank god Pence can now take over'.