intelligent people can have opposing viewpoints though

They can

to write off anyone who disagrees with you as “unintelligent” seems

Intelligent people have a long list of books they've read, concepts they understand, etc. and there is a 0% chance you studied everything they have studied in the same detail.

But a lot of intelligent people also fall for emotional manipulation/propaganda

idk childish

I'm not saying that Black

im not talkin abt what u said legitimate

Okie doke

People who disagree with me aren't unintelligent, but people who operate on the most basic level of understanding the world *are* unintelligent. Whether that's a MAGA Trump supporter or a shitlib.

You usually have to be intelligent to some degree to get to a level of understanding the world that's actually somewhat accurate

But it isn't intelligence alone, it's defeating confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance

That leads you to the truth

i can agree with that

You really don't need to be exposed to a group of people saying, "Build the wall!" over and over to know immigration, nor do you need to argue with basic shitlibs who want no borders whatsoever on the basis of their moral view to study immigration.

Yeah

I know what mainstream politics has to offer and it's all shit

None of it leads to the world I want to live in

That's why so much of my argumentation is, "Why do you support this?" since it's always about someone's moral motivations to support a policy.

The only variation is in their central motivations because they all use the same arguments over and over.

Yeah they aren't very original

whats your opinion of the current state of the govt rn

It's unfixable.

^

There is too much corruption, too much power

The US government has been subverted on every single level

The size of government has never been decreased, only increased and there is nothing to stop that from happening forever except a revolution or massive crash.

Trump is doing *some* good stuff but he's also doing some harmful things, and he isn't even the most powerful person really

I've been mostly disappointed with Trump since I have a few key issues I do not budge on.

Yeah same

what are those key issues?

Namely his flip-flopping around immigration where he isn't as extreme as people hope or fear.

Immigration, middle east stuff

how do you feel about the entire “russia” allegations

It's pretty much just character defamation

I've never done a deep dive into it, but my outside glance is that some things are really bad optics and look bad on Trump, the rest are extreme slander and libel by a powerful class of people bent on destruction.

Trump is more in bed with Israel than with Russia, by far

They just repeat it until enough people believe it

With no evidence

The MSM haven't cared about the truth for decades

The fact that they haven't provided more evidence is evidence that it has no basis