One major flaw of this movie
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SuperWittySmitty — 9 years ago(January 23, 2017 05:19 AM)
Nothing to do with liberals, people frequently side for someone that they identify with. That's normal human behavior which, by the way, is full of contradictions. Yes, the deep-seated racism in America IS problem, regardless of your meaningless retort.
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Humanophage — 9 years ago(April 09, 2016 09:41 AM)
I think that's partly the point of the movie. High IQ people are often arrogant and do not understand gradations of intelligence, nor are they especially focused on survival in the long run, being too enmeshed in their complicated activities that seem so important. Because they value their career, they must behave within the confines imposed by it. A typical businessman may be more intelligent than your local electrician, but he was taught to ignore culture and race; he was taught to
be good
. He'll have major problems if he favours white employment, say. He will gradually adjust his views to fit this restricted routine. He will just watch in silence as his country slowly turns into a second Mexico. In fact, he and his family will remain on top of the hierarchy, just like the Spanish elite in Mexico. He will live like a magnate in a nation-wide Detroit. The whole country - and humanity, including Mexico - will suffer as a result of his selfishness. To a typical high IQ individual, there is no real difference between a Hispanic fruit collector and a white construction worker; they are all equally lowly and working class. But there is colossal difference between a country with an average IQ of 85 and 95.
You cannot budge the businessman from his complacency, while the just ire of the electrician at being equated with a janitor can be exploited. If one needs to talk like Trump to do it, then so be it - evidently, talking like Jared Taylor doesn't work. -
EtaoinShrdlu001 — 9 years ago(December 01, 2016 12:08 AM)
if trump is stupid and popular doesn't that make his voters stupid ?
Yes. It does.
The problem is there are more "stupid" normal people than "smart" folks.
Pure selfishness on the part of many voters had them blinded by lies of rich men without morals.
Dump regs that hurt business! Ban EPA! Kill my Grandchildren!
Just so Corporations can earn more money, and still ship jobs overseas.
If you only think about yourself, you do more harm than good.
Help others live well, and you live well, too.
You Fill Me with Inertia. -
EtaoinShrdlu001 — 9 years ago(December 01, 2016 12:11 AM)
if trump is stupid and popular doesn't that make his voters stupid ?
Yes. It does.
The problem is there are more "stupid" normal people than "smart" folks.
Pure selfishness on the part of many voters had them blinded by lies of rich men without morals.
Dump regs that hurt business! Ban EPA! Kill my Grandchildren!
Just so Corporations can earn more money, and still ship jobs overseas.
If you only think about yourself, you do more harm than good.
Help others live well, and you live well, too.
You Fill Me with Inertia. -
ytterbius — 10 years ago(February 25, 2016 12:42 AM)
Yes, there are definitely smart people in Government trying to solve actual important problems in a real way. As importantly, there are people all across the Country / World in every walk of life trying to understand problems and make things better in whatever ways that they can.
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lkillen — 10 years ago(February 26, 2016 07:46 PM)
I agree with your well thought-out reply but I think they are outnumbered by those who are simply psychopaths. For whatever reason, there is a subset that believe the rest of the planet should submitnto them.
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htdavidht — 10 years ago(March 25, 2016 10:35 PM)
The way I understand it is that they are running on a system that they didn't created, for example when the computer fired half of the population. They don't understand how the computer works or why, but they just follow what the software says. In the same sense they didn't develop the IQ test the computer just told them this guy needs to be in power and they follow what the computer says.
About the real world there is a lot of made up problems that politicians try to fix and a lot of real problems that they deny and/or ignore. -
FryHigh — 9 years ago(June 28, 2016 07:35 AM)
don't you think that with this level of idiocy would these people ever think of picking the smartest guy in the world to solve their problems?
Taking just this thread as an example, the answer is no. Apparently, stupid people are too stupid to both recognize a smart person, or to understand that a smart person might solve their problems. Or perhaps, even to understand what problems they have.
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kristen-marie — 9 years ago(October 16, 2016 10:07 AM)
I guess it isn't clearly shown in the movie, but I never thought it was a group of people who chose Joe to solve America's problems, just President Camacho and then everyone followed him because he did such a great job selling the idea. Joe being the smartest man alive doesn't automatically mean that everyone else is incapable coming up with good ideas and acting on them, etc. Even if President Camacho isn't as smart as Joe, he is smarter than his contemporaries and that's enough to start things moving in the right direction.
I think there are people who go into politics or government work for the good of their country and the world, but probably a lot of them give up, become jaded and demoralized or even corrupted by the system. I'd be curious to see how other (more socialist) countries compare to the United States in the world of the movie; hard to believe there aren't islands of smart people out there, somehow.