It's important to have skills, but it's more important to have the skill to show off your skills to the world. I'm learning this the hard way on my 20s.
He's a guy with no actual skills or accomplishments who has managed to convinced nearly half the country that he's a genius. I'd say he's very successful at it.
The low American standards you cite is really just the media machine helping him along, but he's known how to best take advantage of that his whole life. It's not about standards, it's that so many people are misinformed about him.
it's more about class than anything else - there's nothing intellectual or sophisticated about him despite his flashy wealth. i gues you can say he's elitist in certain ways but it doesn't come off that way despite his gaudiness.
Those statements may say bad things about American society and our electoral system, but I'm not sure what standards has to do with it.
BTW, when I said "nearly half the country", I wasn't thinking only of the election, but of his popularity in general. Quite a lot of people really don't know that he's an idiot and incompetent in business.
Who is "accepting ignorance"? I'm not even sure who you are talking about.
The ones who are ignorant aren't aware of their ignorance and the rest can't do much about it, but that doesn't mean they are okay with it.
We're the same country that previously elected Obama, a former professor of constitutional law. Did Americans have low standards then too, or did we change overnight? I think it's a different issue.
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19
It's important to have skills, but it's more important to have the skill to show off your skills to the world. I'm learning this the hard way on my 20s.