It is an enigma!!
However history tells us that Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read, Nazi's burned books, censured media. Trump has taken pages from that playbook, attacking education, science,musems, the arts,
2. Anything that would enlighten the citizenry, is a threat to tyrannical rule, that's why Trump claims to love the uneducated, they're easier to control, and manipulate. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.
Hate is a winning strategy in certain circles. Generating hate is a lot cheaper, faster and more effective than explaining the positive aspects of policies.
There might be a certain portion of the human population throughout history who has a “gene indicator” in their brain that controls how they think…is attracted to cult-like behavior with limited critical thinking skills. I hope a neuroscientist responds to this.
They are indeed villains but so are their willfully deluded patrons. It takes a feeble mind and a dark heart to believe their propaganda that is so divorced from reality. The only way anyone believes their crap is if they really, really want to.
When he ran 1st Clinton nafta hard labor jobs gone pharmaceutical companies got them hooked government takes those prescription away they and families died over it from going to street drugs Trump exploited it Christian right exploited it
Propaganda every day of their lives. They have been "advertised" into it. Why do you think trump always repeated himself? Repetition and redundancy. Same way advertising works. People hear the lie thousands of times, and the truth may be heard once or twice. After a while, they believe the lies.
Lying MAGA, is Self Entitled, and Hatred filled, so facts don't matter, because that would require having Responsibility and Accountability.
Freedom, comes with Responsibility, without it, it's Self Entitlement, which is No Accountability, as with MAGA.
I'm f & 62yo. Unfortunately with the Evil Incarnate Trifecta of Trump/Vance/Musk large & in charge I'm doubtful I'll make it past 64. Once they cut off my SSD & Medicare I'll be toast. That's if we all don't die sooner from Iranian or Russian nuclear bombs...
There is nothing to understand. They are just ignorant, mean spirited imbeciles. If there were only few of them it would not be a problem, but that is not the case. They are roughly half of us. This is who America is.
Hating and fearing trans women and black/brown people. Lacking criticical thinking. And, I suspect, there's a sprinkle of absurd disillusionment that they, too, someday, will become rich and need these tax cuts 🤔
Here's the explanation: Mix Hate, Ignorance & Stupidity in a solution of Demagoguery and you have what we see today. Republicans can't win with honesty & better ideas so they violated the constitution & the law, ginned up hate and animosity to get what they wanted. Republicans rarely win anything.
In reality, all these issues take some degree of thought to completely understand. Believing lies and confirmations of a person's biases is so much easier.
That's it. It takes consistent discipline and rigor to be a person of principle. Gulping down propaganda that affirms your basest instincts is effortless. Unfortunately it comes with the side effects of destroying civilization when too many people do it for too long.
I wouldn't say that. Christianity also advanced many sciences, but now with the rise of various flavors of radical Christo-Fascist movements, science and education in general is being looked like some sort of heresy.
I'm sure we could draw multiple parallels to al-Gazali here.
I don't disagree. Arts and sciences flourished in Christian world for well over a thousand years. US is just really great at killing things in the name of...
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Terminal: Predicted to lead to death.
Stupidity: Behavior lacking any sense.
The End
However history tells us that Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read, Nazi's burned books, censured media. Trump has taken pages from that playbook, attacking education, science,musems, the arts,
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RACISTS
Pro #PAEDOPHILLIA
Pro #CHILDPORN
why don't you include THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE?
Do you think the children of the rich will be working? No!
They will be using the children of MAGA supporters. They just add sacrificed their own children.
Freedom, comes with Responsibility, without it, it's Self Entitlement, which is No Accountability, as with MAGA.
And then Trump will pardon them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
I'm sure we could draw multiple parallels to al-Gazali here.