Oh please . I ' ve had so many malayalis IRL brag about literacy rates . It ' s one of India ' s oldest memes . <| sep |> I ' m gonna copypaste this from an older comment of mine about why people voted for Trump over Hillary , regardless of specific policyThere ' s a good chunk of America , especially the rural areas , who feel like they ' ve been played by the system . For the last halfcentury , they ' ve been ignored , lied to , cheated , and laughed off the stage whenever they bring up their problems . The wealthy urban liberals sipping champagne in their ivory towers don ' t care about them , only acknowledging their existence to laugh at the ignorant rednecks who think they ' re people . When the recession hit , they only cared that the urban poor got federal funding . Globalization meant fifth goldplated private jet for them , but the factory laid me off for everyone else . Their way of life was legitimately dying , while the highandmighty took the opportunity to make jokes about missing teeth and racism . And where were their proud and patriotic elected officials during all this ? Sharing $ 1000 abottle champagne and rubbing elbows with those very same elites ! Sure , they promise keeping America safe from foreign invaders and protecting the economy , but rural America kept seeing the same downsizing and cutbacks every year while urban America was busy circlejerking about how enlightened and progressive they are . Then , along comes this guy who says he hates the system just as much as they do . Sure , there was the other guy earlier , but he was talking about expanding all those government systems and raising taxes , and there was no way in hell that they were gonna give an extra dime to that corrupt moneyhoovering machine . This guy is different . He ' s a selfmade businessman , more or less a total political outsider , and most importantly wants to pull down the whole rotten structure . They don ' t care about the people he insults and demeans think of how many popular heroes in our culture are gruff , nononsense assholes towards people they dislike . Besides , they see him as insulting the fat cats and empty suits who are helping to perpetuate the broken system . And that ' s exactly what rural America wants . They don ' t want mister hopeandchange who changes nothing and only hopes for reelection . They don ' t want an insipid white bread career politician who ' s just more of the same . And they definitely don ' t want the embodiment of all that ' s wrong with the system who gets a pass for diversity brownie points . And the interesting thing ? Deep down , most of them don ' t care if Trump actually gets most of the policies he promised done , because it was never about that . They don ' t expect him to be a problem solver who makes all the jobs come back and makes America prosperous singlehandedly . These people are the selfreliant , p u l l yourselfupbythebootstraps kind , and they don ' t want anyone to help with that . They just want to see the ivory tower elites and corporate bosses squirm when he ' s taking the oath of office . They don ' t care if he drains the swamp , they just want to see the fish flapping around in the mud . Trump is the brick lobbed through the corporate office window with Remember us ? written on it . Trump is the monkey wrench tossed into the political machine so they can savor it grinding to a halt . Trump is the biggest Fuck you ever in American political history , all wrapped up with a nice little bow and mailed to DC signed Sincerely , the rest of us .