(August 3, 2015 at 9:43 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Rachel Maddow had the ad on her show and my wife sat there incredulous. "Who are they trying to appeal to?" she asked.
"Redneck assholes with guns....a/k/a the Base of the party" I told her.
That was my exact thought right after watching the video. I was thinking, is he trying to appeal to 14 year old rednecks who can't vote, or what? There will be about a million rednecks out there impressed with it, but that's not the greatest campaigning strategy I've ever seen. I was confused by it, but of course, I'm not too shocked by my reaction.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-