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"I love the poorly educated." This wasn't about the economy at all which is pretty good. This was a demagogue preying on gullibility. Y'all just elected him, c
by CalChris 10y ago
"I love the poorly educated."
This wasn't about the economy at all which is pretty good. This was a demagogue preying on gullibility. Y'all just elected him, citation unnecessary.
- jessaustin 10y agoWhat's the alternative? Hating them? Pretending they don't exist? How did that work out for you?
- CalChris 10y agoHe loves the uneducated because they're gullible. In fact, he loves them so much that he'll educate them at Trump University.
- jessaustin 10y agoTrump University is indefensible, but do you really believe categorically that people with e.g. secondary education only are "gullible"? Who told you that?
- DefaultUserHN 10y agoSeems like you hate the poorly educated, and you're just attributing that to Trump. Now only that, you're assuming that uneducated people are gullible. You're stereotyping a broad group of people without any evidence.
- vinceguidry 10y agoTrump, in my estimation, hacked his way into the White House. He recognized key vulnerabilities in the way the media handles politics and exploited them for all they're worth, putting his meagre resources where they counted, and ignoring everything else. This allowed him to remain the underdog right up until he won the election. These vulnerabilities are going to be fixed in the next four years. There's just too much at stake for it to be otherwise.
- pessimizer 10y agoWhen you say that to your own supporters what you're saying is "I know that some of you don't have as much education as you may have wanted. You're welcome here, and will be listened to." Instead of that, the Democrats ran on "stupid people are mad because they are poor. We smart, enlightened people should make them shut up, and show them that this isn't their country anymore." i.e. "We will herd the poorly educated."
- CalChris 10y agoYes, you've illustrated how demagogues work. You've even elected one.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoYeah... um... the original article was about smugness among liberals. You might want to think about that.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoYou say something that doesn't even answer wojcech's point, then say "citation unnecessary"? Not very convincing. (The point, the request for citation, was the claim that the economy is doing well for the bottom 20%. A quote from Trump does not address that question whatsoever.)
- DefaultUserHN 10y ago>"I love the poorly educated." Well, Hillary Clinton and her supporters hate the poorly educated, and look where that got them.