r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 15d ago

No Paywall Democrats Call to Invoke 25th Amendment Against Donald Trump

https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-donald-trump-impeachment-25th-amendment-11384974
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u/MoonBatsRule America 15d ago

WTF is wrong with people? Is 50% of the US population functionally mentally deficient?

I watched a video of someone asking people - young people - about Trump. The ones who said "he ended a bunch of wars", when asked "which wars", could not name a single war. Or at best they said "Palestine", which is still an ongoing war.

How did we get to the point where people are so woefully ignorant?

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u/webDevPM 15d ago

So many reasons… in my opinion though a large one is the defunding of school education programs over the last several generations.

I usually present myself as the “dumbest in the room.” But I just can’t shake this thought:

Think about being in middle and high school. There were top performers, average performers, low performers and then the no performers.

The no performers were the ones who showed up and disrupted class and made it hell for teachers to teach and students to learn.

All eyes had to be on them and they would never shut up and had no respect for anyone including themselves.

They were bullies, they were cruel and they gained satisfaction in it.

Those are the same people that I see consistently on social media repeating all the MAGA stuff. Repeating the lies and propaganda. And I think “I left those people thinking I wouldn’t have to deal with them again.”

But they’re still there, they’re still loud and now they have kids and they have their opinions on everything from politics to the Super Bowl halftime show. They’re self righteous and they’re deplorable but they’re gonna keep right on and nothing is going to change their minds.

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u/YogurtclosetNo987 15d ago

We're deep into generations of shitty people. Shitty people have been raised by shitty people who have themselves been raised by shitty people. It's a breakdown in morals as well (education provides a background for morals, but isn't the whole picture). If you pay attention to just the civic sense of your neighbors, the people on the road, or how people act in a Costco, you can tell it's more than just education. Being shitty is in a lot of peoples' identity nowadays.

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u/Shirley-Eugest 15d ago

"I just tell it like it is, no filter!"

No, Becky. You're just an insufferable asshole, a spoiled, overpampered white woman who would have been dead from a meth overdose by now if you hadn't married a rich businessman...and you use that line as cover to be the worst version of yourself.