re: #546 Old Liberal

I lived in “real America” the last ten years. I spent my first 18 years there. You can’t appreciate just how profoundly stupid these areas have become over past 40 years. You can’t help people who are willfully stupid and profoundly obstinate. There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.

I also see this as the cuts in public education that started under Reagan and continued in a downward spiral coming home to roost.

Now it is truly the case that people are openly proud of their stupidity and wear it as a badge of deplorable identity.