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Trump Card: The Follow-Up

So, we kicked the hornet’s nest with this. And rightly so.

But I’m intrigued. So let’s take a wee look at one of the most chilling truths in American history – one that puts the whole Trump circus in context: the deliberate exploitation of low-IQ, low-income citizens by those in power.

Even the phrasing rattles like a ghost through the archives of U.S. military history: 

MacNamara’s Morons.

Who Were “MacNamara’s Morons”?

In the 1960s, during the Vietnam War, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara launched “Project 100,000”: a plan to lower IQ and physical requirements for military service. The goal? Draft 100,000 men a year who would normally be unfit for enlistment. Most had IQs under 85. Many were illiterate. They were overwhelmingly poor, rural, and often people of colour.

They were sold a lie: “We’ll train you. We’ll lift you up. We’ll make you men.”

But what happened was far more sinister.

They were sent into combat zones at disproportionately high rates. Many were placed in dangerous roles because they lacked the cognitive ability to pass safer assignments. Their casualty rate? Much higher than average. The result? A generation of forgotten cannon fodder – dead or broken – sacrificed for a war most of America didn’t understand, led by elites who never faced the consequences.

Why It Still Matters (and Why It’s Trump 101)

Because the same tactic is now being deployed. Not with guns, but with votes.

Let’s be real: if the poor and working class ever united, the game would be over.

The billionaires would have to share the pie. So, what do the elites do instead?

They divide. They mislead. They dumb down.

Sound familiar? Here’s the modern version:

• Gut the education system so people struggle to think critically.
• Underpay teachers and over test students until school becomes trauma.
• Replace history with propaganda and science with opinion.
• Create media echo chambers that reinforce emotion over analysis.
• Demonise intellectuals and experts as “elites” while hoisting actual billionaires onto golden pedestals.

All while telling struggling people that their real enemy is… immigrants. Or women. Or “wokeness”.

It’s a con job of Olympic proportions.

The Real War: Intelligence vs. Obedience

There’s a reason Orwell wrote: “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

The U.S. didn’t just accidentally create generations of poorly educated, under-resourced citizens. It’s been part of a long-term strategic design: keep the population just smart enough to work the machines and pay the taxes, but not smart enough to challenge the system.

Educated people ask questions.
Educated people don’t fall for strongmen.
Educated people organise.
And educated people vote.

What This Means for Us – In Ireland, In Real Life

If you think it can’t happen here, think again. The assault on education – on critical thinking, on “experts”- it’s a global trend.

Here in Ireland, we have a rich tradition of valuing learning, storytelling, questioning, and resistance.

We can’t let that be eroded.

So here’s what we do:

• We teach our kids the stuff the curriculum skips – about power, systems, and propaganda.
• We support our educators and demand real investment in schools and universities.
• We stay sharp, especially when slogans come cheap and scapegoats are handed out like sweets.
• We refuse to dumb ourselves down just to fit into a broken system.

Because in the end, the war on wisdom is a war on freedom.

And we didn’t survive colonisation, church abuse, famine and economic exile just to get hoodwinked by a man grifting Make America Great Again hats that are made in China.