After watching that video of interviews with Ford supporters at his campaign launch, it's obvious that these people are about as unsophisticated as they get. I come from an area that was once considered the wrong side of the tracks and had a bad reputation of being populated by uneducated, lead-poisoned labourers. I get annoyed when I hear people call Ford supporters "uneducated" as that would describe most of my old neighbours, many of whom were forced out of school early for economic reasons; but they were not stupid. Some of them were downright brilliant. I would love to know what they'd make of the Ford phenomenon today.
Watching Ford's supporters talk on camera was cringe-worthy. That stupid singer chick Jenny (?), and the steak queen guy could barely articulate a thought. They have no political opinion which is not spoon fed to them and in the case of the singer, she wasn't even able to give a compelling reason why she likes Ford. She's either an opportunist or a fat-daddy fetish.
Hilariously, an older man described himself as a political junkie who wakes at 5 a.m. to read all the newspapers. Well, he can't be absorbing much because he still apparently believes wholeheartedly that Ford's bullshit is truth. He the nerve to call everyone else "ignorant".