Woit seems less detached from reality than e.g. Terry Tao but the simple-mindedness, emptiness, as well as evil of his type of argumentation is even so shocking.
In the firstly paragraph, he says that nosotros don't alive inwards normal times as well as the U.S. of A. commonwealth is inwards a "disturbing state". To sketch how nosotros wants to create the "disturbing state", he announces that no give-and-take well-nigh his weblog post is allowed because "Internet comment sections are a purpose of the problem". Right, a non-disturbing "democracy" is i inwards which people never speak as well as exactly mindlessly brand it to vote for Hillary-like candidates.
Woit is a stuttering inarticulate crackpot so I won't re-create his verbose prose. But several pages at the get-go say:
- If you lot desire to vote for Hillary, don't forget to vote for Hillary as well as don't alter your mind
- If you lot desire to vote for a 3rd candidate, alter your mind, don't last similar the Nader voters inwards 2000, as well as vote for Hillary
- If you lot desire to skip the vote, alter your take away heed as well as vote for Hillary
- If you lot desire to vote for Trump, don't create it as well as ideally alter your take away heed as well as vote for Hillary
His message to Trump voters truly has 2 "justifications" (another page). They're the following:
- Don't vote for Trump because of his values because he changes his take away heed as well as he could hand a project to Peter Thiel who is eccentric as well as no i shares his views
- Don't vote for Trump because he is i of us because Trump is truly i of us, the liberal coastal educated elite, as well as he is trying to fool you lot as well as pretend that he is a Southerner
And as well as so at that topographic point are all the understandable cloth motivations that brand people vote inwards i means or another. For example, Obamacare seems to last an absolute catastrophe, every bit predicted (and a crazy thing, every bit mentioned yesteryear Bill Clinton), as well as many people are currently seeing a tripling of their insurance costs etc. Unsurprisingly, Trump wants to repeal the Obamacare, inwards understanding with most of non-left-wing folks as well as roughly left-wing ones.
No i tin guarantee that every bit a president, Donald Trump volition fulfill all these promises. But these promises even so shape what he's representing as well as what he'll last expected to create – as well as hence influence what he volition probable do. Hillary Clinton doesn't defend these of import things fifty-fifty verbally. So lots of the criterion conservative voters volition vote for Trump because of the rather criterion well-known ideological reasons. They know that all the comments that Trump is special – inwards roughly feel much worse than whatever previous Republican candidates – are exactly meaningless hype. The electrical flow Republican candidate is ever the "worst i inwards the history" according to the left-wing hype because he needs to last defeated now. George W. Bush was also the worst i ever. McCain as well as Romney weren't the worst ones exclusively because they were left-wing plenty for the Democratic Party.
Concerning Peter Thiel, Woit says that no i shares his opinions as well as values. Well, I for sure part most of them. And lots of voters regain them interesting as well as respectable, to say the least. Donald Trump's opinions as well as flexibility don't truly dramatically differ from those of his voters. So if he thinks that it's a skillful thought to hire Peter Thiel for the Supreme Court, last sure that a large purpose of the Trump voters volition recall that it's a keen idea, too. To pretend that you're sure well-nigh the contrary answer is exactly stupid.
In the 2nd paragraph, Woit says that most people inwards the New York City consider everyone inwards the crimson America to last lamentable "ignorant racists". Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 occupation is that Donald Trump thinks the same well-nigh the rednecks, Woit says. Please, hand me a suspension with this utter bullšit. The fact that someone lives inwards the New York City doesn't hateful that he shares the values as well as perspective of a politically extreme displace that is rigid inwards the New York City. It may last rigid at that topographic point but it is inwards no means roofing everybody. At most, the observation that Trump is a wealthy Newyorker implies that comments that he must last "totally incompatible with the engine that powers America" are for sure exaggerated.
Trump has towers inwards Chicago, Las Vegas, Florida, as well as many other places. He's inwards no means confined to roughly ivory tower or whatever other bubble inwards the New York City. He also has existent estate inwards the Philippines, Turkey, Toronto, Panama, Mexico, as well as other places. His woman bring upwardly was born inwards Scotland, his firstly married adult woman was Czech, as well as his electrical flow married adult woman is Slovenian-born. He's travelling a lot. But fifty-fifty if he weren't travelling, it wouldn't hateful that he shares roughly perspectives of the likes of Woit.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 picayune fleck later, Woit writes cute sentences such as
More of late I’ve come upwardly to the conclusion that what’s going on hither has to create with the world-view of much of the liberal, educated shape that I’m a purpose of.The IQ needed for this deep insight had to last at to the lowest degree 30, too. Imagine: the Americans' dissatisfaction with the people similar Hillary Clinton as well as Peter Woit – as well as the institution surrounding them – which turns many people into enthusiastic fans of Donald Trump could lead maintain something to create with Hillary Clinton, Peter Woit, as well as their globe view. Wow, what a discovery. Columbia University volition for sure renew the contract with this unproductive "intellectual" because of this discovery.
The detailed selection of the words is crazy, too. First, the thought that the monastic enjoin should last divided to "classes" is a Marxist construct. The existent America is a laid upwardly of 300+ 1000000 people who belong at most to numerous overlapping fuzzy sets with an unbelievably high break of connections betwixt all of them. To speak well-nigh the classes – as well as frame the elections every bit a purpose of a shape struggle – is both irresponsible as well as uninformed. Almost all the people who experience comfortable with this Marxist linguistic communication in all probability prefer Hillary, anyway.
But let's lead maintain that a laid upwardly of people similar to Woit may refer to themselves every bit a "class". We hear that they are the "liberal, educated" class. The 2nd pompous describing word sounds implausible given the fact that Peter Woit hasn't fifty-fifty been able to sympathise the importance of string theory despite pretending that he was "educated" inwards theoretical physics. He's exactly a mediocre uneducated crackpot. The firstly describing word is bizarre, too, because these people lead maintain no abide by towards the freedom or anything associated with it. They are classical Stalin-style leftist totalitarians – Woit's conclusion to ban whatever give-and-take on politics is exactly i tiny symptom of it alongside thousands. But Woit is clearly non the firstly leftist who is trying to hijack the intelligence "liberal" so let's non combat well-nigh this manipulative terminology much.
This "educated, liberal class" is despising the expected Trump voters. We are told:
From a lifetime spent alongside such elites I tin tell you lot that, yes, they create aspect downwards on you.But what an arrogant leftist aßhole similar to Peter Woit cannot tell you lot is what the Trump voters recall well-nigh these people who depict themselves every bit the "elites". He can't tell you lot because he has never lived alongside them. I assure you lot that the antipathy is mutual. The Trump voters aspect downwards on you, pro-Hillary as well as feminist as well as multicultural as well as pro-Islamic as well as pro-Big-Government as well as otherwise defective as well as specially corrupt, self-serving, as well as hypocritical would-be "elites". That's a rather of import betoken that the likes of Woit exactly can't sympathise which prevents them from understanding pretty much anything inwards politics.
After all, the thought that the coastal, highly "blue" states are roughly elites who are much improve off than the "red" states etc. is largely a nonsense, too. Just aspect at a random map of the gross domestic product per capita:
Written tables with the same information (from diverse years) may last found on Wikipedia. You come across that the colors aspect cypher similar the colors on the political maps. The rattling rich, pink, states include Sarah Palin's Alaska as well as Wyoming i.e. the foursquare inwards the Midwest. Minnesota at the pump of the North is purplish i.e. richer than average. The New York state, California, as well as Texas don't differ from the average – as well as each other – likewise much. Needless to say, the yesteryear far wealthiest territory inwards the U.S. of A. is Washington D.C. with over $180,000 inwards gross domestic product per capita. It's a metropolis with the dominantly Republican Congress.
The thought of the likes of Woit that they're improve than the conservative America inwards roughly "objective" feel is exactly non justifiable yesteryear whatever real-world data.
Most of the residuum of Woit's article is redundantly presenting a conspiracy theory that everyone has teamed upwardly to discredit Hillary Clinton who must last completely clean. All the pundits are discrediting Hillary inwards monastic enjoin to create the illusion of their ain moral superiority. The "unholy alliance" contains non exclusively right-wing as well as left-wing websites (Woit seems no unlike betwixt them) but also the New York Times (!) as well as of course, Jill Stein as well as the Green Party. As nosotros mentioned above, the voters of Jill Stein are obliged to last progressive as well as vote for Hillary Clinton, too.
When it comes to this grouping as well as all others, Peter Woit (and similar rotten brains inwards the ivory towers) look absolutely unable to imagine that someone may recall differently well-nigh politics. Well, they can't truly imagine that someone may last able to think well-nigh politics with their ain brains; that he tin lead maintain unlike values he is trying to arrive at etc. He as well as similar scumbags desire everything to last controlled yesteryear roughly left-wing ability structure. He doesn't cover at all that he considers environmentalism etc. to last exactly roughly other tool for spreading the left-wing agenda.
But the greenish color was chosen because of Nature. The greens should unremarkably as well as traditionally last defending as well as conserve Nature – inwards this sense, they are conservative. The environmental displace inwards the West has been largely hijacked yesteryear the leftists – the sort of crap that had to escape the overt Marxism after that ideology got humiliated when it lost the Cold War – who repainted themselves greenish as well as became watermelons (which are even so crimson inside). But it was exactly a historical curiosity that isn't meant to be forever. Of course of report there's cypher paradoxical well-nigh a greenish party's opposition to a generic left-wing candidate, specially if this candidate plans e.g. to escalate the tension against the world's #1 nuclear superpower.
In Czechia, nosotros also lead maintain roughly left-wing greens but for many years, a political tourist named Martin Bursík (a mainstream political leader who's been a fellow member of many, generally center-right, parties) was the chairman of the Green Party. I truly know rather right-wing people inwards the Greenpeace, too. There's absolutely no "canonical" argue why a greenish mortal should last supporting someone similar Hillary Clinton. Woit's "assuming" that the greenish "has to" exclusively highlights Woit's ain stupidity.
You may come across that the Stein-Hillary animosity is rigid as well as mutual, too. See e.g. this Facebook post reposted as well as endorsed yesteryear Jill Stein that says that Hillary Clinton is rattling unsafe as well as to a greater extent than unsafe than Donald Trump; as well as this hostile as well as anxious response yesteryear DailyKos.
So Peter Woit exactly hasn't presented a unmarried damn sensible declaration that could alter a rational person's take away heed well-nigh the U.S. of A. elections – exactly similar inwards his 8,000 rants attempting to say "string theory is bad", he hasn't presented a unmarried rational declaration that would weaken the critical importance of string theory inwards physics inwards whatever way. He's exactly enumerating all the generally illogical as well as self-evidently manipulative slogans, excuses, threats, as well as insults that he wants all obedient people to repeat.
But people who are able to recall as well as people who lead maintain roughly moral values only know that Peter Woit's words are absolutely worthless demagogic junk. You're non an elite inwards whatever meaningful sense, Mr Woit. You're exactly a spoiled brat from a Nazi identify unit of measurement who understands cypher of import well-nigh the globe as well as who has never contributed anything to the mankind. So delight furnish to the sewerage arrangement inwards the New York City where you lot belong as well as don't seek to pollute the environs for decent Americans yesteryear your muddied presence.