The Alarming Discovery That Some Trump Supporters Aren’t Dumb

Decency is an early warning system.

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio

Throughout my life, no matter the slings and arrows I’ve had to suffer, there’s only one set of people I’ve hated as a group:

People who don’t look where they’re going.

People who stop, oblivious, at the top of escalators, people who linger, mindlessly, in the doorways of shops and restaurants, people who bump into you while staring at their phones and then scowl at you, you (!!), as if you materialised out of thin air in their privately owned space.

If there were a slur for these people, I would have used it liberally over the years.

Because it doesn’t take a genius to figure that doorways are for walking through, not standing in, it’s not hard to predict what will happen if you stop at the end of a moving walkway with dozens of people behind you, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that you have more accidents when your eyes aren’t pointed in the direction you’re moving.

But sadly, this particular group of people is incapable of understanding these basic, self-evident facts.

And worse they blame everyone but themselves when the consequences smack them in the face.