Why do we keep thinking the RW are stupid?

[CK_John]

They control about 30 states lock, stock and barrel. They control the House, stalemated the Senate, nullified the President.

Also they control AM radio, Cable and the social media. They are knocking our socks off and have us running in circles chasing our tails.

[PowerToThePeople]

1. There are two parts. Master and Slave. n/t

[Incitatus]

2. Not all of them are stupid.

There's the manipulators and there's the manipulated.

[rrneck]

3. Here's a good online book that will go a long way to explaining it.

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/

[Warpy]

4. They can do all that and be stupid, too

What they have that we don't have are billionaire sugar daddies. Our billionaires are donating money mostly overseas. Right wing billionaires spend it right here.

[Cleita]

5. The leaders behind the scenes are wicked smart.

The ones we see, the politicians and media personalities are only following orders because they will gain wealth and power doing so. The rest are pathetically stupid but that's how the Party likes it.

[LisaLynne]

6. Apparent success =/= smarts

Yoiu can be wildly successful/wealthy/powerful in our society without being very smart. We don't exactly reward intelligence.

[quakerboy]

20. This.

Amoral is not the same as intelligent. Being willing to sacrifice human lives, even the whole ecosystem, the willingness to stab any one in the back, break or destroy anything or anyone who might mildly get in your path, is not the same as smart. But it often will lead to material success in our current structured society.

[unblock]

7. what you mean is that they are formidable adversaries. i agree.

but that has nothing to do with smarts.

in a nutshell, they cheat. they legally bend the rules of fair play in their favor, then exploit said legal unfairness to the full extent possible, and for good measure, they bend the rules illegally as well, as far as they can get away with.

they exploit all their resources to tilt the playing field in their favor. they *know* liberals are smarter, so they change the playing field to focus on shouting matches and sex scandals and clothing and sighs and rumors and hate and fear and greed and so on in order to make the strengths of liberals less effective and make the strengths of right-wingers (mostly money and narrowly-defined loyalty) more effective. their tactics actually acknowledge that liberals have the edge in the smarts department, as well as in the facts department.

[branford]

8. Never underestimate your adversaries.

After Obama was first elected and had a veto-proof majority in the Senate, I often read how the Republican party was now dead and insignificant. The reports of their death appear to have been greatly exaggerated. They control the House, most statehouses and legislatures and have a reasonable chance of taking the Senate in 2014. Heck, Michigan, the home of the UAW, is now a right to work state.

Constant vigilance and political involvement is necessary to achieve progressive goals. The Republicans may be very wrong, but they are not stupid.

[Egalitarian Thug]

9. Because so many of them are. The so-called RW are fueled by vast, inherited wealth and the sad

fact is that if you have enough money, you can make anything you want happen.

It is that fact that keeps the powerful in power, regardless of political affiliation.

[HangOnKids]

16. Indeed The Lucky Sperm Team Is Fucking Stupid

No need for critical thinking when the $$$$ is already in the bank.

[bhikkhu]

10. Dogmatic obstinate bullheadedness is stupid

...but some people do look at it as a virtue, and historically it does characterize the "ruling class". Education is the all-purpose cure, but education is often and regularly disdained in American culture.

[bermudat]

11. More so evil than stupid.

[Demo_Chris]

12. People from both parties like to assume ALL these guys are stupid...

You hear this regularly from both the right and the left. Bush was an imbecile, Obama is an idiot, Clinton was clueless, Reagan was just reading a script. None of this is true of course. They are all brilliant men buried in mountains of information and unimaginable levels of stress.

[Zoeisright]

13. Because they are.

And they're hardly "knocking our socks off", sparky.

I don't think you have really thought about who your "us" is.

[Boom Sound 416]

14. They are a paradox

The vast majority think the party leadership has lost touch with the values, and therefore they are stupid. So, they organize (at least they think they are) and nominate Christine O'donnel who spends her time trying to convince the electorate she's not a witch. When I agree with Karl Rove, that is a stupid candidate, brought to us by a group that thinks the leadership is stupid

I don't know if its paradox or psychosis.

[HangOnKids]

17. Word Salad

"When I agree with Karl Rove, that is a stupid candidate, brought to us by a group that thinks the leadership is stupid" what the fuck does this mean?

[Boom Sound 416]

19. I was trying to write in circles (you know for effect)

Can you reply to just one of my posts without fuck, bullshit, etc

I thought Californians were more laid back. The sun doesn't even come up till like 9am out there

[Boom Sound 416]

15. Outside of fox, they don't own cable or social media

[RobertEarl]

18. Smart enough

They own the companies that we use to count our votes.

[Rex]

21. George Walker Bush.

They prove it, but you see since they break the laws so often and get away with it...we not think of them more as criminals then just simply stupid.

Some are stupid, some are evil bastards.

[Safetykitten]

22. I continually harp on this. They are a very formidable and dangerous gang...always underestimated

here. Constant threads about how they are in decline.

Not for one second should any Democrat say things like that. They are cockroaches and survive everything.