Just because they are rich does not make them smart or a non-racist rube. It doesn't mean they have the wisdom and hard life experiences that under $50k per year brings you or the likely youth in that demographic who are currently seeing a different America. A friend that make over $60k per year and attended 2 Trump rally's in Nebraska said. "I just think successful people create success". Not wishing to argue the merits of Trump's Charlatan tactics. I simply said, "If you think money is the only indicator of success in life. Then you do need Jesus". A friend of mine that is a lawyer became a big Trump supporter complete with being blocked on facebook through Covid misinformation. She kept trying to shove the phone in my face with the video of ballots being mishandled in Georgia. Later, that same lady in the video, it was found, was approached by Kanye West's publisher. Kanye West's publisher basically attempted to coerce her to falsely admit to rigging the vote count. It is as Charlie begins this piece. As a lawyer, she is really good at reading law. However, through the years has not read philosophy, history, culture, economics and probably could not find Ukraine on a mpa before it became a thing. The reason why all of us are here, pro-lifers along with pro-choicers, strict interpretation and loose interpretation. Is because we saw the value in these things over money and donated the time to enhance our knowledge. A Trumper has not. And that shit is stupid.
A lot of educated people are appallingly ignorant and our consumer/merchantile/individualist culture is toxic to good ethics and community.
As you say, just because you are economically successful or highly educated (well, what passes for it in this country anyway) doesn't mean you are a good person--though for some reason we tend to conflate economic success with good character (which says a LOT about us).
Just because they are rich does not make them smart or a non-racist rube. It doesn't mean they have the wisdom and hard life experiences that under $50k per year brings you or the likely youth in that demographic who are currently seeing a different America. A friend that make over $60k per year and attended 2 Trump rally's in Nebraska said. "I just think successful people create success". Not wishing to argue the merits of Trump's Charlatan tactics. I simply said, "If you think money is the only indicator of success in life. Then you do need Jesus". A friend of mine that is a lawyer became a big Trump supporter complete with being blocked on facebook through Covid misinformation. She kept trying to shove the phone in my face with the video of ballots being mishandled in Georgia. Later, that same lady in the video, it was found, was approached by Kanye West's publisher. Kanye West's publisher basically attempted to coerce her to falsely admit to rigging the vote count. It is as Charlie begins this piece. As a lawyer, she is really good at reading law. However, through the years has not read philosophy, history, culture, economics and probably could not find Ukraine on a mpa before it became a thing. The reason why all of us are here, pro-lifers along with pro-choicers, strict interpretation and loose interpretation. Is because we saw the value in these things over money and donated the time to enhance our knowledge. A Trumper has not. And that shit is stupid.
A lot of educated people are appallingly ignorant and our consumer/merchantile/individualist culture is toxic to good ethics and community.
As you say, just because you are economically successful or highly educated (well, what passes for it in this country anyway) doesn't mean you are a good person--though for some reason we tend to conflate economic success with good character (which says a LOT about us).