[Grampa Dave]

Years ago, Robert A. Heinlein tried to warn us about entertainers and professional athletes and what they said!

“The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

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“But there seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously —:

After all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important … so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be both ignorant and sub-literate every time he opens his mouth. (Most of his fans were just as ignorant and unlettered; the disease was spreading.)”

Robert A. Heinlein, To Sail Beyond the Sunset

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/347280-to-sail-beyond-the-sunset

[morphing libertarian]

bkmrk

[Vermont Lt]

Be careful, there. Our President was considered more of an entertainer by a majority of Americans.