2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDonald Trump doesn't want to soil his beautiful mind with reading, or knowledge
by Mark Sumner at the Daily Koshttp://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/18/1549292/-Donald-Trump-doesn-t-want-to-soil-his-beautiful-mind-with-reading-or-knowledge
"SNIP...............
It's taken a while to understand just how Donald Trump could be the best at everything. How could he know more about ISIS than the generals, more about the economy than economists, and more about how he's always right than all those videos showing he was wrong?
The secret of Trumps brilliance is simple. Really simple: Don't learn anything.
He has no time to read, he said: I never have. Im always busy doing a lot. Now Im more busy, I guess, than ever before.
Trump thought about reading a presidential biography, just so he would understand all about how other people did it wrongbut really, what's the point?
He said in a series of interviews that he does not need to read extensively because he reaches the right decisions with very little knowledge other than the knowledge I [already] had, plus the words common sense, because I have a lot of common sense and I have a lot of business ability.
..............SNIP"
applegrove
(118,778 posts)but foreign policy or constitutional matters or the economy do not work that way. He'll be spoonfed by the GOP on all those issues after realizing that he doesn't have enough information on these issues to go on his gut.
WhiteTara
(29,722 posts)a winner! The best winner, you better believe it!
Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)The only truth that matters to Trump is the reality he creates when he speaks.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Why does he not want to read? Something of a dysfunctional nature going on,watch when the Guy uses a teleprompter,does he suffer like many,with Dyslexia,or some other reading malady. Think so.
applegrove
(118,778 posts)the fictions of their competitors and speak from the gut so they seem authentic (they don't rely on memorization because they are bad at that). GOP likes their Dyslexics dumb so they can use them like Palin, 'W', & his father. The Democrats like them smart like Kennedy, Johnson or Woodrow Wilson. All dyslexics. There is no relation between dyslexia and IQ. Many can read despite not retaining everything. Trump can read a teleprompter. But he's flat when he does. And when he speaks from the gut he is frightening and says stupid, vain things.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)rely on memorization of certain key things. But,Trump has used bluster and bulling through out his life,and when he does become cornered,subject change is his main tool. Did not know Kennedy was dyslexic.
Hillary will be able to unmask this Dufus with in seconds,and it ain't going to be pretty. Looking for this Guy to go Postal. Understand he is subject to out bursts.
applegrove
(118,778 posts)sad choice. Because he's not just dyslexic, he's a con sales guy.