After reading some tweets posted online I now understand.

[TNNurse]

How Donald Trump got in office (notice I did not say he won) was by votes from people who are willfully ignorant. I think of willfully ignorant people as those who do not want to learn, think or pay attention to anyone who might have different opinions or knowledge. I read people who were delighted that "Obamacare" would be repealed because they got their insurance through the Affordable Care Act. I swear the comment was that the ACA was what replaced Obamacare when it failed.

That is willful ignorance, the choice to not know what the hell you are talking about, and brag about it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I read that same comment and even if it stands alone or turned out to be a planted

comment, the fact is most Americans dont think they need ACA because they have insurance with their employer.

What these uninformed people will now learn, ACA meant no preexisting exclusion or caps, so we are all tremendously harmed by what the GOP is doing.

I read that 75% of the country does NOT want to repeal without replacement, but this version of the GOP doesnt care what the country wants, clearly.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. So true.

[TNNurse]

3. It is not just the ACA

The words that have come out of Trump's mouth are unacceptable. They should be horrific to decent people who attend church, do good work, are kind and compassionate. People who do not believe that crooked work practices, more than one episode of adultery, lewd language, insulting language, hate speech are something to respect. People who should understand that that wall is an idiotic idea and Mexico would never pay for it. Some of those people voted for him anyway. They had been taught to hate Hillary Clinton for so long, they refused to see what a really disgusting, ignorant, pompous and very very dangerous person he is.

[RazBerryBeret]

4. Just on my FB page and see this:

(from a Trump supporter)

"Alot of what he said in the past made me cringe. But i like his americanism and policy message. Thats why i voted for bill clinton twice.

Holy Hell, this is someone I knew in HS, actually Someone I dated in HS--talk about cringing.....
His Americanism? this is so disconcerting.

[hunter]

5. The U.S.A. has always suffered an anti-intellectual mean streak.

I speculate it's a consequence of the more fundamentalist religions, and it's not just the extreme Protestant religions. Every major religion has fundamentalist factions who simply reject any knowledge that conflicts with their religious views. Curiosity is stifled in children because it's a threat to the religion. If a curious kid starts believing the earth is more than 6000 years old, or rejects the idea that a Biblical flood drowned the dinosaurs, then they might reject the entire religion itself.

The problem has only been aggravated by mass media, especially television, that treats every opinion as equally valid. Yet some people do tell lies, and yes some people really are willfully ignorant, and no, their opinions are not worthy.