There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Man, for a movie that was thought to be such an exaggerated satire of the devolution of our cultural (and actual) intelligence that its creator set it 500 years in the future, it sure has turned out to be scarily prescient-- and at a very accelerated timeline.
Comparisons and contrasts between trump and President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho have been pointed out many times before…
Comparison: Camacho was a “former five-time Ultimate Smackdown champion and porn superstar”. trump, while being neither champion nor superstar, has well-documented associations with both the WWE and with porn / sexual assault.
Contrast: President Camacho actually listened to his advisors, learned from his mistakes, and cared about the people he governed.
We’re on a worse timeline than the Idiocracy timeline, 480 years in advance…
Just think how well this will go when the current crop of “All MAGA all the time” homeschooled droolers who’re age 10 right now become the main source of political activists in 20 years or political leaders in 40.