You are suggesting that 70% of the country is letting 30% of the country run the show in an egregious manner. If this is true, then much of that 70% is indeed an idiot, or simply an apathetic enabler which, given the stakes, also makes them idiots.

While there is truth to the claim that loud morons get a disproportionate amount of attention, I also believe that “average” intelligence is far lower than educated people realize. Like, the dummy in your social circle (often a friend’s friend or partner) is probably at least of average intelligence, if not above it...

This may well be a reasonable thesis, but if it’s true it counters your whole argument that the majority of people are not idiots.  

I know your comment isn’t an essay prompt, but I think about this a lot. I am convinced that the large majority of people are not idiots. As with so many other things, the stupidest 15% of people and the ~15% who enable them take up all the oxygen and draw all the attention, and our society has to be designed/warped…

Thank you for the article and the comment. For putting into words exactly how *I* felt watching his brother hug her. This is why you write the articles, and I just shit-post and retweet.

I mean, if you have to tell people at your press conference to stop laughing at you, you lost. Just take the L and go home.

Goddamn, that’s some fucked up shit.

“Brandt Jean’s hug was not a political statement but a personal one, and it’s a distinction we need to make if we want to live in a world where his older brother is still alive.”

That sentence is a joke, but it’s the usual benefit of white innocence blah blah blah..

Guyger cracked jokes about Martin Luther King Jr.’s death...

And even worse is that the fact he is one of the few people to ever be President of the United States can never be UNDONE.

Federal pardons are only for Federal crimes.

Is anyone else expecting a pardon from Mount Bullshit (aka: Cheato) and her to be nominated DHS something or other?

She is only sorry and tearful because she’s going to jail. That’s it. She’s not repentant that she shot a man in his own damned apartment while hopped up on something other then racism, she’s sorry because she likely thought she would have a few weeks off with pay and get to come back and do her same old shit.

You're assuming that Trump doesn't have heart issues.  Given his age and lifestyle, I wouldn't make that assumption.

“Possibly you’re happy to see Vengeance done, not Justice?”

She shot first and asked questions later. Tell me, if a black man had busted into the wrong apartment and shot a white woman before even trying to figure out why the apartment DIDN’T have his OWN stuff in it, and then failed to render aid even though he was trained how to do so, would you be defending him to this…

I am fucking shocked, not because I ever doubted for one fucking second she was guilty of murder, but because I didn’t think there was a chance in hell she’d be convicted. I was already talking myself in to settling for being satisfied if they got her on manslaughter. I can’t say I’m happy about the verdict cuz I’d…

Really glad they came to the right verdict for once.  May her body rot in jail until it matches the quality of her soul.

DC is absolutely divine, and I am so glad that you interviewed her and that she shared more of her story. I know she has inspired so many with her distinct poise and style. Her character Dominique Deveraux was always keenly aware at the subtleties of her presence in Dynasty, and this is one of the single best scenes…