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I wasn't just talking about the GOP. Some of these people actually are ignorant, feel bad about it, and try to keep everyone else ignorant so that they feel les

• johnnyanmac 2y ago
  Some, perhaps. There's plenty of splinters who got their advice up the chain. But I don't think the root causes that started as millionaires already and only get richer are ignorant per se. You need a certain discipline, narrative, and overall feel on the mood to properly become that successful on a grift. I doubt many of them went from rags to riches on this.
• cocacola1 2y ago
  Asimov said something about this: > There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'.
  • Copenjin 2y ago
    It's a global tendency, even if the effects are slightly different.