We have a consensus among the general population,
that we would like to see those who were not born
with fully functioning mental faculties achieve as much as they can in life.
Aside from Eugenics fans ,
programs that help the developmentally disabled
are generally supported by most folks.
It has become obvious however, that the Republican Party
has taken this concept way too far.
The GOP seeks out the dullest dullards
and most blithering of idiots among them…..
and selects them to occupy the highest political offices.
has taken this concept way too far.
The GOP seeks out the dullest dullards
and most blithering of idiots among them…..
and selects them to occupy the highest political offices.
I suggest this is not conducive to a functional society.
Sadly, the average GOP voter can not spell “society,”
let alone comprehend what might be bad for it.
Why Do Republicans Gleefully Embrace Idiots as Candidates?
The question naturally begs a larger question:
How can a nation, with the world’s highest national GDP,
and extremely complex systems regulating everything from credit default swaps
to nuclear missile safety, possibly allow onto its national stage
men and women of such obvious inferior intellect?
One might say that there has been a long, pathetic history of anti-intellectual paranoia in American politics. This was documented by author Richard Hofstadter in his book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963). You might say that It is like Cerberus, very difficult to defeat. You chop off a head here or there and another one bites your ass.
No matter how advanced the U.S. becomes in technology, biomedicine, and weaponry, it only attracts a confederacy of dunces of ever decreasing skills and mental capacity as Presidential candidates. This has never been more apparent than this election cycle.
The first impression we might observe is that in Kindergarten, Americans are told that any citizen can grow up to be an astronaut, a millionaire basketball star, or President. Obviously this does not mean that simply any idiot can be an astronaut. It takes a wide range of skills, training, and experience to be considered for a space mission. Nor can any buffoon who buys sneakers play basketball well.
How can a nation, with the world’s highest national GDP,
and extremely complex systems regulating everything from credit default swaps
to nuclear missile safety, possibly allow onto its national stage
men and women of such obvious inferior intellect?
One might say that there has been a long, pathetic history of anti-intellectual paranoia in American politics. This was documented by author Richard Hofstadter in his book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963). You might say that It is like Cerberus, very difficult to defeat. You chop off a head here or there and another one bites your ass.
No matter how advanced the U.S. becomes in technology, biomedicine, and weaponry, it only attracts a confederacy of dunces of ever decreasing skills and mental capacity as Presidential candidates. This has never been more apparent than this election cycle.
The first impression we might observe is that in Kindergarten, Americans are told that any citizen can grow up to be an astronaut, a millionaire basketball star, or President. Obviously this does not mean that simply any idiot can be an astronaut. It takes a wide range of skills, training, and experience to be considered for a space mission. Nor can any buffoon who buys sneakers play basketball well.
In America the idea is promoted that no training or knowledge is required to perform a job that is not only more complicated and demanding than piloting spacecraft or being an athlete, but one which regulates these occupations and all sorts of other complex and nuanced occupations around the globe (including undercover agents in foreign lands).
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| You will do as you are told! |
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| "I am not a smart one!" |
This scheme worked so well with Reagan, it naturally attracted other knuckleheads. First came George Bush Sr.’s running mate, William Danforth Quayle, who promptly displayed his latent stupidity in public at every opportunity. He and his supporters took bold stances against common sense, Murphy Brown (not even a real person), and spelling.
The country as a whole was not sufficiently stupid enough yet to actually tolerate a presidential campaign from the likes of Quayle. But after two terms of an intelligent commander-in-chief, Bill Clinton, the country was sufficiently demoralized (not by the notion that a president had sex outside his marriage, after all that has been fairly common throughout the history of the office even though in past administrations this kind of personal crap was not considered newsworthy, but rather because for his entire 8 years some kind of witch hunt was always in progress thanks largely to serial adulterers Newt Gingrich and his page buggering colleagues discussing oral sex on every news outlet and Sesame Street.
America was now sufficiently brain damaged enough to manipulate into complete and utter idiocy.
Enter Stage Right - George W. Bush, who, like Reagan, enjoyed two terms in office, despite beliefs in brazen poppycock such as Intelligent Design and in the whopper of all disastrous absurdities, that Saddam Hussein was not only Marshalling weapons of mass destruction to directly attack the U.S. (no, he was bluffing to deter his real enemy, neighboring Iran), but that he was also behind 9/11 (never let a good crisis go to waste, eh Mr. Cheney?). Only a true rube could ever believe such specious nonsense. And G.W. Bush – who exemplified the adage, “Never ascribe to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity” — fit the bill. The Republican Party loved him for it, bending over backwards to sanitize and “Hannitize” his many blunders, while selling his disinformation to a gullible American public, further brain damaged from the attacks of 9/11.
At last count, the Iraq Detour has cost this nation trillions of dollars (with more trillions to come, as this country rightfully must keep its commitment to care for wounded and mentally shell-shocked Iraq War veterans and their loved ones). It also cost the lives of 125,000 Iraqi civilians, and many times more than that who’ve been wounded or displaced by the Iraqi misadventure. All because of a lie and Americans’ willingness to either believe that lie or not forthrightly contest it. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the empirical cost of stupidity.
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| Ron Zombie |
In this election, the 2012 "candidates" are not qualified to be scout leaders, or dog catchers. let alone be placed in charge of a nation with nuclear arms.
Each hopeful successor to the Republican Dumbass Throne (the most coveted RDT) has proven so cartoonishly dopey as to offend even the intelligence of diehard Iowa Republican primary voters, easily the most unbending conservatives in the U.S.
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| Monumental Stupidity |
Celebrating stupidity IS an American exceptionalism,
I sure wish we’d do the hell away with it.
There should be no pride in being deaf to reason,
and insisting that day is night is not a reason to hold your head up proudly.
Republican voters ought to be truly appalled by what
they’ve done,
and what they’re still trying to do.
I’m sure they would be,
if they weren’t all morons.
