It's quite disheartening how the messaging is regurgitated like GP's comment. It's the fourth or fifth comment that I've read in the past day on HN repeating the same empty platitudes.
I said before and I'll keep repeating: if even what was supposedly the well-educated cohort of the American population, the ones accessing this forum, are falling for this then I've lost the vast majority of hope I had for the USA.
Even the ones with full access to education, and knowledge are choosing to be this stupid... I can't imagine how it is for the uneducated.
Carl Sagan was absolutely right, it came a time for his children and grandchildren to experience the darkness of anti-intellectualism.
Since Trumpers only seem to care about theirs and what they can get. In simple terms if Trump is successful it means we are not a nation of laws but a nation of dictates from on high. That is not a stable nation. No one will invest in that nation's stock markets. No one will buy their bonds. No one will use their currency as a reserve currency.
