Oh Muhgerd, Trumpsters are so friggin stupid

[Ronin Truth]

And their votes count just exactly the same as your's.

 

[Murray N Rothbard]

It is as though people are trying to out-do the Obamabots. Every major GOP figure- and the morons who support them- just get more and more stupid. First it was Bush. Then Palin. I never figured it could get worse than that.

The past 16 years have been a pretty shameful period in US history.

 

[Ronin Truth]

It is as though people are trying to out-do the Obamabots. Every major GOP figure- and the morons who support them- just get more and more stupid. First it was Bush. Then Palin. I never figured it could get worse than that.

The past 16 years have been a pretty shameful period in US history.

"When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.' The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." -- H L Mencken, Baltimore Sun (26 July 1920)

 

[rg17]

Trump, Sanders, Clinton, and Obama supporters are the dumbest people ever!

 

[r3volution 3.0]

Here's a good illustration as to why the average Trump supporter is probably a lost cause and why it's a blessing that almost half of this country's eligible population doesn't vote.

 

[limequat]

Argh. Go read How to Win Friends and Influence People...people.

There is no such thing as winning an argument. You smile, nod, agree, and plant seeds. Find common ground. Here's a particularly fittting excerpt:

Years ago Patrick J. O'Haire joined one of my classes. He had had little education, and how he loved a scrap! He had once been a chauffeur, and he came to me because he had been trying, without much success, to sell trucks. A little questioning brought out the fact that he was continually scrapping with and antagonizing the very people he was trying to do business with, If a prospect said anything derogatory about the trucks he was selling, Pat saw red and was right at the customer's throat. Pat won a lot of arguments in those days. As he said to me afterward, "I often walked out of an office saving: 'I told that bird something.' Sure I had told him something, but I hadn't sold him anything."

Mv first problem was not to teach Patrick J. O'Haire to talk. My immediate task was to train him to refrain from talking and to avoid verbal fights.

Mr. O'Haire became one of the star salesmen for the White Motor Company in New York. How did he do it? Here is his story in his own words: "If I walk into a buyer's office now and he says: 'What? A White truck?

They're no good! I wouldn't take one if you gave it to me. I'm going to buy the Whose-It truck,' I say, 'The Whose-It is a good truck. If you buy the Whose-It, you'll never make a mistake. The Whose-Its are made by a fine company and sold by good people.' "He is speechless then. There is no room for an argument. If he says the Whose-It is best and I say sure it is, he has to stop. He can't keep on all afternoon saying, 'It's the best' when I'm agreeing with him. We then get off the subject of Whose-It and I begin to talk about the good points of the White truck.

 

[dude58677]

"They took our jerbs. Der, Der, Der!"

 

[statist slayer]

Argh. Go read How to Win Friends and Influence People...people.

There is no such thing as winning an argument. You smile, nod, agree, and plant seeds. Find common ground. Here's a particularly fittting excerpt:

Years ago Patrick J. O'Haire joined one of my classes. He had had little education, and how he loved a scrap! He had once been a chauffeur, and he came to me because he had been trying, without much success, to sell trucks. A little questioning brought out the fact that he was continually scrapping with and antagonizing the very people he was trying to do business with, If a prospect said anything derogatory about the trucks he was selling, Pat saw red and was right at the customer's throat. Pat won a lot of arguments in those days. As he said to me afterward, "I often walked out of an office saving: 'I told that bird something.' Sure I had told him something, but I hadn't sold him anything."

Mv first problem was not to teach Patrick J. O'Haire to talk. My immediate task was to train him to refrain from talking and to avoid verbal fights.

Mr. O'Haire became one of the star salesmen for the White Motor Company in New York. How did he do it? Here is his story in his own words: "If I walk into a buyer's office now and he says: 'What? A White truck?

They're no good! I wouldn't take one if you gave it to me. I'm going to buy the Whose-It truck,' I say, 'The Whose-It is a good truck. If you buy the Whose-It, you'll never make a mistake. The Whose-Its are made by a fine company and sold by good people.' "He is speechless then. There is no room for an argument. If he says the Whose-It is best and I say sure it is, he has to stop. He can't keep on all afternoon saying, 'It's the best' when I'm agreeing with him. We then get off the subject of Whose-It and I begin to talk about the good points of the White truck.

Yes, it's all about feeding people what they want to hear. Additionally, it's about projecting an image that people are trained to respect -- that of the cool kid from school. These two factors -- pandering and posturing -- explain the success of Trump, who is in no other way presidential material. Rubio's biggest weakness is his goody two-shoes persona. I think he tries to compensate for this by adopting such an absurdly belligerant foreign policy. His best bet against Cruz is to draw attention to his nerdiness and elitism -- Cruz was the kid getting swirlies. Carson has collapsed, because people don't respect and fear his withering and dithering stage presence although they eat up his low-information outbursts. Rand is a thinking man's candidate, and therefore unsuited for mass market democracy.