re: #64 Hecuba’s daughter

So are many voters. I am appalled by the intelligent, educated people who prefer Trump — people who are not wealthy and who seem decent. But I suspect that almost all are racists— either anti-black or anti-Semitic(like the North Carolina candidate for governor).

I don’t think the writers at 20th Century Fox ever realized how right they were when they wrote that line from Men in Black: “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals and you know that.” In context it fits the movie so perfectly, but even outside the film it’s brilliant such that it endures decades later. And that’s the reality that we’re dealing with here, that millions of our fellow “smart” Americans have turned into dumb, panicky animals because their world is coming to an end. They wake up every day and tune into media that tells them that the America they grew up in, that they dominated, is a little further away and the clock is ticking before it’s gone for good. And it scares them to death because they’ve been told for years that when their world is gone, then all that was “good” and “right” will be gone forever.

The logic is pretty easy to see: For those “smart” people, there’s not a lot of options if they want their world “back.” The MAGAts control such a large portion of the GQP that there was never a serious chance of anyone else winning the nomination if Trump chose to run. But everything they read, watch, and listen to tells them that any Dem in office will only further the dismantling of their world. And that the Dem will win if those “smart” people vote third party or sit the election out. So, in the end, it doesn’t matter how stupid it appears to vote Trump, those “smart” people will do so because they wish to restore people like themselves to dominance and damn the consequences for the rest of us.