Trump: Imbecile? Genius?
Trump’s level of intelligence is irrelevant to the damage he’s inflicting on American society and humankind as a whole.
OK, he’s smart enough to have pulled off, so far at least, the greatest con in world history, but his defining characteristic has nothing to do with his IQ. It lies in his singular ability to tell bald-faced lies that are eagerly accepted by large swaths of American voters.
In November, tens of millions of people will go to the polls and cast their ballots for a man who has convinced them that the 2020 election was rigged against him, that the country’s problems stem from the radical left, and that he is the only person on Earth who can fix those problems, even though he is being unfairly prosecuted by the Deep State and woke liberals.
IMO, there is no antidote for this poison, no cure for this disease. It’s something that needs to simply run its course, like a case of the flu.
Trying to have a rational discussion with people who think this way is as good a use of your time as trying to teach your dog to play the violin.
Thomas Paine put it better (see right).
I was fortunate enough to have grown up in an affluent household, in which my parents were able to join a nice country club near Philadelphia when I was 12 years old. The kids with whom I played golf and tennis all came from similar settings, but it was immediately clear that they had a wide ranges of aptitudes and intelligences.
From magician and actor Penn Jillette: For (millions of) years our biggest problems were too few calories, too little information. For about 50 years our biggest problem has been too many calories, too much information. We have to adjust, and I believe we will really fast. I also believe it will be wicked ugly while we’re adjusting. 
As shown in the video below, submitted by Gary Tulie, Harvard University reports that coal dust and the exhaust from coal-fired power plants killed at least 460,000 people over the last 20 years.
FWIW, this makes perfect sense to me.
The cartoon here provides us with a great deal to think about. What precisely does the ever-accelerating rate of change in our world actually translate to in terms of the survivability of our civilization?
Astonishingly, there are people who refuse to take a few minutes per week and separate their recyclables from their trash to be landfilled.
As previously mentioned, 2GreenEnergy “headquarters” is located in a rural part of California, one whose political leanings, in the main, could be described as “God and country,” or simply “MAGA.”
Here’s a supposedly neutral “survey” from ultra-right-wing educational institute Hillsdale College.
This from author Fran Lebowitz:
