I have a friend i've known for over 40 years and i keep evading his phone calls

[paleotn]

34. Exactly. The excuses have worn thin.

We all know it's because they hate smart people, brown people, any people they can hate to feel better about themselves. With their simple brains, they think they can run things far better than those "egg heads." Trump is their champion because he's just like them. Dunning Kruger on steroids. People who just can't grasp the fact that they don't know much and feel put upon to default to those who do.

These are the people who forever have spouted uninformed, unworkable and downright nutty ideas and solutions to real problems. Their simple thinking is very binary, cartoonish and unnuanced. They're all giddy now because for once they think their kind, along with assorted psychopaths, get to run the big machine.

In a world where little is simple and nuance rules, that's damn dangerous. Best we can hope for is their ineptitude cripples their ability to do much and any impacts bite quick, hard, but cause no permanent damage. Bite enough to get the squishy middle to wake up and think...gee, that was dumb. The far left tail doesn't have enough self awareness for that, so short of them going back to pursuits more fitting their intellect, we simply have to out vote them.

A pity we couldn't just pull up the ladder in 2021 when it came to suffrage. Repukes don't think voting is a right anyway, so take them up on that. Suffrage should be based on mental capacity. Centuries past, property was an analog for good sense, among other things. Imperfect but the best they had. Today, we have far better tools for determining if we can risk giving someone the vote. Whether or not we can trust them with the responsibility of making complex decisions in a rational manner. The Founders spent a good amount of time arguing this exact problem.