Toast (if not trolling) is probably fairly typical of a dumbed-down, naive and susceptible swathe of the population.



These are instant soundbite people. Whether able to do so or not, they have no interest whatsoever in acquiring knowledge or study. An informed position is as alien to them as Venus, and about as attractive.



Instead, they think they know everything, and that nobody can tell them anything, and the big change is that the various social media platforms have suddenly given even the most blithering idiot a "voice", which many feel almost obsessively compelled to use on pretty much any topic. They are irrationally but unbendingly convinced that their knee-jerk views, probably harvested from a combination of scumbag redtops, neo-fascists and populist propaganda blindly swallowed from vested interests, are both blindingly obvious, and shared (or should be) by any right-thinking person.



Instead they invariably advertise their ignorance, intolerance and insouciance. It is a nasty trait, but the sick, old, ill, disabled and anyone potentially seen as some kind of "burden" on "society" have throughout history often been made targets of mockery, abuse and worse, and still are.



In this country we have spent many years and much blood in trying to achieve a society which is better than that, but sadly the dark forces are never far away, and in the form of our present "government", it is worryingly easy to see hard-won progress suddenly being targeted savagely and without a conscience, for obscene political ends.



Why bother to spend time to do a little bit of your own research, or to consider and actually begin to understand a given topic? Surely, hearing or reading belligerent soundbites to which you're superficially attracted is enough? Reasoned discussion? Why, when you can just text "MORON" to some voteline number (texts cost £1 plus your normal network charge) and move on to castigate the next category of wasters?

Congrats, I didn't think I'd find anyone more stupid than Rick Perry...

Dick

I think I now understand the reason for Katie Hopkins existence

hey Horatio, you forgot to put your glasses on





*Won't get fooled again plays*

An obnoxious prick who just deliberately came on here and tried to upset someone for fun.