What Robert De Niro says here is largely correct; most of Trump’s supporters are intellectually inferior to the U.S. population at large.
This is not universally true, however. There are plenty of brilliant minds who will stand behind him to the very end. These people with profound moral defects.
Imagine loving money so much that, in order to make your next billion dollars, you approve of a criminal sociopath who:
• Launches a useless and illegal war that cripples the American economy, committing a vast array of war crimes in the process.
• Gets away with attempting to overthrow the U.S. federal government.
• Cuts healthcare from tens of millions of our citizens.
• Attacks the U.S. educational system.
• Removes dozens of environmental regulations.
• Supports Big Oil by destroying the clean energy industry.
• Kills vaccine requirements, paving the way for the next pandemic.
• Works to insert Christianity into our schools.
• Allows homeless veterans to die of treatable diseases.
This is moral bankruptcy.
Six months ago, our local CVS drugstore had a manager, a handful of employees answering customers’ questions, checking them out at the cash register, stocking shelves, etc.
Last month, I noticed that most of these employees were gone, and the former manager was now stocking shelves. I also noted long lines of customers waiting for an automated checkout machine to become available.
Last week, I saw the former manager working at a nearby grocery store.
Also, the pharmacy is now closed for an hour for lunch. When I asked about this, I was asked, “Don’t you think we employees deserve to eat lunch?” I responded, “Of course I do. But can’t CVS afford to staff the pharmacy so customers are not inconvenienced?”
This is certainly not a unique–or even rare–occurrence; it seem that CVS is like most large corporations, driven by cost-cutting, while abusing their employees and their customers.
Barack Obama read the actual GOP agenda to a roaring Atlanta crowd Wednesday: a $1 trillion tax cut for millionaires and billionaires, paid for with higher health care costs and Medicaid cuts. Plus a war in Iran that everyone warned would push prices up. “(Democrats will) ban hamburgers and make everybody eat tofu,” he joked.
The meme here makes sense–until you realize that the most productive, happiest people on Earth live in Scandinavia and the other social democracies scattered around the globe.
Providing everyone with the opportunity to succeed seems to work quite well in the real world.
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