(#6078) A stupid people's president

      It is not easy for me to title this post like this. I am an optimist and prefer to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. Yet we are living in dishonorable times right now. Too many people think they are really smart when the evidence of their self believed wisdom is displayed as ignorance and cruel when they speak. I often speak here about the failure of taking shortcuts. In some respects shortcuts are not bad but in many more instances shortcuts are really bad ideas. Especially when it comes to knowledge and intelligence. I can simplify my words to make them sound more understandable but I can never shortcut my foundation of actually knowing what I am talking about.
     What I hear too often is people saying things to make themselves sound smart while missing the point of what they are saying. To say something with an authority while not knowing what the words actually mean is disturbing and obviously dishonorable. I don't act like a know it all so I can sound smart. I try to learn what is going on and then discuss it with an open mind. That is what is missing today. Too many like to think that their 30 minutes of google search is the final solution. What is even more disturbing is the way too many of these folks who need to be told how to think take advice from conmen, hucksters, and bullies.
     I often find that specialists are worthy of being heard in their areas of expertise. I lean one way or another given their objective views. I do not pretend that their thoughts are mine nor do I take their viewpoints as absolutes. Just beginning starting points of any type of learning debate. For any specialist in any field of knowledge to peak my interest they must generally be honorable and respectable human beings. I do not listen to folks who display their egos harming and dividing. We currently have a president who spends more time dishonoring our democracy and our rights than not. I do not listen to him or his megaphone speakers. It isn't that he is a monster per se but he is not an honorable person of objective knowledge to be attentive to or admired.