QOTD -- Delusions And Randomness

 

"... Donald Trump was elected by swing voters, who either didn’t vote in 2020 or voted for Joe Biden. These swing voters seem on the whole to have voted to make Trump president again because they believe doing so will lower the price of eggs, or they want to pare back the 45% of the federal budget that’s spent on foreign aid, and so forth.

"What I’m saying is that, especially under current information and media technology conditions, American 'democracy' consists of total idiots deciding elections for reasons that are some combination of flat-out delusional and utterly random.

"That such people put a flagrant con man who tried to overthrow the government back in the White House isn’t surprising, really, because nothing such people do can be surprising, given the delusions and the randomness..."--  Paul Campos, LGM, on the state of American democracy (his view is somewhat more pessimistic than ours), and the misinformation forces leading our decline.  Btw, Campos is being sarcastic when he says that foreign aid is 45% the federal budget -- it's about 1% or less most years -- but then again, Trump will bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours and cut inflation and fund the entire government through his tariffs!  All true!  We saw it on Zuck-up's Facebook!