Intelligence

A recent article a friend posted on FaceBook, Who Are Donald Trump's Supporters, Really?,  shows that Donald Trump supporters tend to be, among other things, less formally educated than supporters for other candidates. It might be telling about some people not really thinking very much about the real issues, but this implies that less intelligent people tend to believe in Trump. This idea doesn't completely sit well with me. I believe that "intelligence" is about experience. If a person is experiencing college courses, etc., that time is displaced. It is NOT available to experience other valuable things about the world. I'm the first/only person to earn a college degree in my biological family. My dad, brother, etc. would be considered "blue collar". But they're not stupid. In fact they are among the most intelligent people I know. So I don't really like the implication. It seems like we might want to label them as stupid, and say "See. Only stupid people like Trump. You don't want to be stupid, do you?" Now it IS possible to do "stupid", or non-useful things. You don't need to be college educated to deduce certain things. If a person has shown that they lie a lot, how can you begin to trust them? That's just common sense. I get that people and politicians lie. Often you only find out that they might have lied because they haven't kept, or been able to keep, their campaign promises. But if a person does a lot of blatant lying, long before they even get into office . . . Trump confidently says things like "Trust me. ____ WILL happen. Believe me.", without really showing concrete examples of how/where it has. It can feel comforting for some, to hear that, but . . . it looks like others have fallen for that non-substantial pitch before. It also doesn't make sense that rich people, like Trump, want to reduce the parts of government which negatively impact citizens. They absolutely DEPEND on the complexity of the IRS, and all the tax regulations. It's a great place to hide loopholes that only expensive tax lawyers have the time/resources to take advantage of. Then, lobbyists, have plenty of resources (tax money) from the rest of us, to work on channeling into subsidies benefiting their large businesses. Government has been a great business for guys like Trump. He's taken advantage of socialist-like programs like bankruptcy laws, multiple times. What he says just doesn't add up. You don't need a college education to see that.