I always remember my mother, when I was a little boy, 5 or 6 years old, when I used the word "Dumb" explaining to me that "Dumb" was a word that described a person who didn't have the physical ability to speak. That it was the result of disease or mental impairment and that it often accompanied deafness. Look it up in the dictionary. I recently (within the last 20 years) looked up the word "ignorance." We generally use it in the pejorative, but it means, simply; "not knowing." Ignorance or stupidity are the words that are the best descriptors for this administration.
I always remember my mother, when I was a little boy, 5 or 6 years old, when I used the word "Dumb" explaining to me that "Dumb" was a word that described a person who didn't have the physical ability to speak. That it was the result of disease or mental impairment and that it often accompanied deafness. Look it up in the dictionary. I recently (within the last 20 years) looked up the word "ignorance." We generally use it in the pejorative, but it means, simply; "not knowing." Ignorance or stupidity are the words that are the best descriptors for this administration.