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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Paid off by whom? I'm pretty much the only person here nakedly saying that a good bit of the hand wringing about this guy is folks talking their books. Ya think that's a kumbaya comment?

That's what's going on almost everywhere among the people who have brains, isn't it? "Oh shit... This fucking guy is fucking with trade, which fucks with finance, which fucks with profits that accrue to people like me. He's risking the future income of all but the very tippy tippy top of the top 10%."

The desperately poor are too damn busy trying to survive to write articles critiquing Trump. It's all done by an educated class, the one to which you and I belong. You know these people. They know that questioning neoliberal policies is a dangerous heresy to a system that butters their bread. This explains why you'll rarely hear a poor union steward griping about Trump. (To the contrary, they'll privately vote for him, because his economy and his tax plan has led to an uptick in building projects that profit them.) You won't hear a home health aide cry about Trump. Your plumber won't decry him. Your dentist won't. Nor will any real estate agent.

Who rants about him loudest? Blue state urban and suburban professionals and govt workers. Why is that? Is it because they're the smartest? The "elites"? No. (They like to think that, asserting that Trumpkins are all bitter anti-intellectuals.) But no, they're neither elites nor serious intellectuals. The real elites are far above them on the class ladder (and they laugh at them). It's because these blue and purple state upper middle class folk have skin in Trump's game. He fucks with their taxes. He potentially imperils with their livelihood. And he's dumb.

Oh yes... He's dumb. You cannot argue that. Cunning, ruthless, but also incredibly dumb. (He's winning everything because he's impossible to defend against. It's like playing basketball with a 7'1 guy who's drunk and on crystal meth. Shooting from perimeter? Driving? About to elbow you in the face? Throwing a skyhook from half court? WTF is next?)

Being dumb, he offends people who think being smart, and holding the values de jour of folks who think the New Yorker is well written, is of paramount importance. That he succeeds infuriates them.

I can say this because he infuriates me. I can only tolerate the man because I look at him as fascinating proof that being smart doesn't really matter all that much in politics or most businesses. He's our Chauncey Gardiner... And it's so comically crazy, he becomes tolerable. But I know people who know him, and I've even met some of his family, and I Would Not Be Interested in Spending Time With Him. At All. Nor would you.

So if you think I'm paid off and buying into the critiques I read here, I'm not. I agree with some, I disagree with others. I'm not aggressively for or against any candidate, really. My only interest is disintegrating all pretexts, of candidates and their voters.

Or maybe people just don't like the fact that he's a racist piece of shit and that . . . oh wait, I'm sorry. You had your tongue up Slave's ass, and I'm rudely interrupting. Carry on.