BadFish
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- Oct 19, 2003
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I agree about calling people stupid but from where I sit they have just made a stupid decison. A little reading suggests that the main issues people voted on in the US were democracy and the economy.I think that calling someone stupid is counter-productive and wrong, but it is clear that some voters are better informed than others.
It is also clear that if people choose to vote purely on "it's the economy stupid" and only on matters that effect them directly, without considering the environment, education, foreign policy, justice etc then the world really is f***ed.
Trump made it sound like the USA is a nation where everyone is on the breadline, nobody has any money and where inflation is rampant. There is some of that but not to the extent you'd believe.
Trump's personal deficiencies are bad enough, as are some of his extreme ideas, but as bad as anything is the idea he will "drill baby drill" and "frack frack frack" his way to ecological armageddon.
He's a f*cking dinosaur on the environment, but US voters don't seem to care. The US economy was doing OK and certainly not so bad as to risk economic, military and environmental chaos. They want to look inwards, not outwards, and that's dangerous for the rest of us.
In terms of democracy they have voted for someone who tired to inturrupt the transfer of power and encourage a riiot/coup/attack on the capitol. Surely this is a bit daft.
In terms of the economy, his suggest policies of tarrifs on good from abroad, deporting illegal immigrants and spending are pretty likely to f*** it up.
Add to that his personal misdemeanours, felons, the fact that many people who have worked closely with him have warned of his danger and his inability to finish a coherent sentence are we really supposed to look at th whole situation and think, yep that looks like a good intelligent choice.
The evidence may end up showing that he was a brilliant choice, as he reenergises Flint and all those other other places doing it hard, stops the immigrants eating people's pets, ends the war in Ukraine and puts Outin back in his box and ushers in a golden age for America. At this point I will wipe the egg off my face and applaud the intelligent choice by the US electorate and marvel at their ability to see things better than me.