[wuwuno]

Dunning-Kruger gets thrown around a lot, but in this case it's spot on.

David Dunning - "If you're incompetent, you can't know you're incompetent ... The skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is."

These are dogs chasing cars with the goal of driving the car, once they catch it.

Luckily most people aren't very motivated, self directed or willing to risk everything. Of course these guys don't really understand what they've put at risk.

What I want explained to me is why the right, and even the middle of the road right seems like they've lost their minds. They are willing to support and ignore the really crazy far right, like it's normal.

Is it just their racism finally bubbling to the surface after being artificially suppressed all these years? I don't just believe that they've been brainwashed by the right-wing media, I think there needs to be something else under the surface that makes the susceptible, and I think it's racism. Am I wrong?

[krapp]

You're not wrong. Eight years of Obama was enough for the racist cancer in the heart of American culture to finally metastasize and start to consume the body politic.

It doesn't help that Donald Trump basically shares many of those extremists' beliefs, prejudices and conspiratorial mindset (he's the man who made birtherism a thing,) and so does nothing but fan the flames and grant them an air of legitimacy. But he's more of a symptom than a cause IMHO.