re: #122 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I don’t know why, but I have started to resign myself to the Coming of the Idiocracy.

Maybe not this election, although Hillary is one natural disaster/Wikileaks “scandal” away from losing her lead, but the seeds of Stupidity are planted, the outrageous shit that is discussed and debated in a matter-of-fact way is so extreme that the way is paved for the next Idiocrat to take power in the next election.

There has always been a streak of anti-intellectualism in the United States. Sometimes the anti-intellectuals manage to get elected (Ronald Reagan, George W Bush, &c).

The so-called alt-right is no more alternative than they were during George Wallace’s run for president, when his Youth for Wallace group became the neo-Nazi National Alliance afterwards.

When Trump is handed his hat in the election, they will go on to support the next anti-intellectual candidate that comes along.

Things such as free speech and gun rights in the Bill of Rights were liberal intellectual positions when they were written. There was plenty of anti-intellectual opposition to that then.