[dantillberg]

> These are seemingly smart people.

They _are_ smart people. There's more to the differences in perspective than "lib smart, maga stupid".

[nobunaga]

If your intelligent in your work, but completely retarded when it comes to society , information gathering and independent thinking rather than regurgiate whatever your oranged tanned cheeto says, then no, your not smart. You just have been able to condition your brain to do something over and over again. Intelligence and smartness isnt about doing one thing well.

[tombert]

There is more to life but I do have to question the intelligence of anyone who believed that Trump was going to somehow lower grocery prices by implementing tariffs.

It almost doesn’t even make grammatical sense to say “raising prices will lower prices”, let alone any kind of rational sense.

[mindslight]

At this point there really isn't. The only political philosophy that meshes with Trumpism is anarcho-capitalism. If Trumpists were generally espousing anarcho-capitalism, I could respect that they were coming from a different fleshed-out perspective and we could debate the merits of it. But they are not! Rather Trumpists appeal to widely varying political ideals, but then when you try to apply a specific one to different actions of the regime it's either just crickets or a Gish gallop. So the straightforward conclusion is there is a glaring lack of any sort of coherent analysis.

[tombert]

Most people are idiots. No party has a monopoly on being stupid.

[recursive]

I think there's also more to it than that.