Here's An Idea...

Someone should set up a controlled study to see if there is a correlation between a person's inability to determine when someone is acting and the inability to spot phony political candidates. I got this idea after hearing an avid Trump-supporter talking about a program on T.V. that used actors to depict U.S. military personnel pretending to speak candidly with a reporter about their experiences in Iraq. The Trump-supporter spoke as if the actors were real soldiers expressing their real thoughts and feelings. But, when I saw the same program, it only took me a few seconds to tell they were only acting, because people just don't talk the way they were talking naturally. And I wondered, how could anyone not see that they were just actors? And I realized how I have often wondered the same thing about why so many people can't tell that Trump is an idiot pretending to be intelligent. The only thing he (Trump) is any good at is doing what other people tell him to do, and then taking credit for it when it makes him look smart, or blaming the person who told him what to do when it doesn't. In other words, acting. And he's not very good at that either.

[J.D. August 18, 2018]