Still astonishing to me how a major US political party has decided extreme thick-headed stupidity is the only way forward.
Trump ally Candace Owens: “I'm not a flat earther. I'm not a round earther. Actually, what I am is somebody who has left the cult of science. Science is a pagan faith.”
The party of ego is the party of ignorance. You can't commit yourself to narcissism as a principle without damning anyone or anything with the cheek to challenge your ego with these "facts" and "logic".
What’s the point? The mass of people are so stupid, so gullible, because they want to be misled. There’s no way to make them not want it. You have to work with the human race as it exists, with all of its flaws. Getting them to see reason is a fool’s errand.
Neal Stephenson, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
Well, the thing is, they figured out a while ago that they're never going to win people with half a brain cell on their actual platform, because it's basically "LOL we take your money and all your rights and crush you that is it that is the platform."
voila: target the stupid.
20 odd years ago, we all laughed at the likes of Dan Quayle , then the tea party loonies like Sarah Palin. Thought they were so way out of kilter with respect to sane politicians, that they’d never gain traction. How we got that wrong.
This is literally painful to read. Actual pain. How did we get to point where people like this are not only in positions of power, but have managed to brainwash large portions of the population into thinking the same way? We have similar types in Canada, too, and it's mind-boggling.
in keeping with our galloping backwards to pre-Enlightenment times, is it time to re-introduce the auto da fe. Masterminded not by vigorous Jesuits but obese evangelical preachers from Middle America.
Apparently she is a person who prefers to deal in unfounded & unsubstantiated ‘opinions’ or fictions, rather than in empirically proven facts or peer reviewed research.
In other words - an idiot.