re: #422 HappyWarrior

There’s always stupid people like this. There was a minority of Italian Jews who embraced Mussolini.

And just as in the Thirties when the New York Times was fluffing Hitler (for which they have yet to apologise or retract), they have to go out of their way to introduce them to the rest of us … except instead of Jews it’s autoworkers who voted themselves out of jobs, farmers who voted themselves out of farms, &c.

In Cheyenne a couple weeks ago at our dine-out, my wife and I had to listen to a whole table full of people insisting that farms are doing better and factories are coming back across the nation. Facts didn’t matter (got the “That’s your opinion” line).

We won’t be going back (but not for those reasons, far worse happened at that dine-out).

It is noteworthy that in that group of people, I am the only one who does not have a college degree. The political naiveté doesn’t just come from the “non-educated” as someone put here a couple weeks ago about those of us with no college degree.