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To rebut or perhaps shed light on John Mishler’s Feb. 3 letter — 2 percent of people think, 3 percent think they think and 95 percent would rather die than think — it seems to me he may fall in the 3 percent bracket.
Rather than people spending all their life energy loathing someone (Donald Trump) and trying to get others to follow, why not try to figure out why 40 percent will vote for him no matter what? Try reading history books, there’s nothing new in this world. Maybe those fools (the 40 percent) have read, “The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.”
Maybe I have part of the answer. Perhaps the 40 percent consist mainly of essential workers. They have nothing to fear from Trump; they are already in the trenches, you can’t get any lower.
Remember when the government decided who was worthy of being virus free and who wasn’t (essential workers)? Apparently 40 percent of the country feels downtrodden right now. But prepare for the inevitable: A populist candidate will come along in 2028 or 2032 who will be able to speak a little more presidentially and the same thing will likely happen here as did in Argentina and Ecuador.
Mishler seems to like quoting philosophers so here are a couple: Dale Carnegie said, “When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us.” And, according to Carnegie, Thomas Edison said, “We hunt like bird dogs after the facts that bolster what we already think, and ignore all the others.”
Kevin Davis
Plymouth
