US Stuck On Stupid. We Mock Intelligence & Worship Ignorance.

[TheMastersNemesis]

If we had any kind of national intelligence we would be openly outraged at the level of debate and the presidential and Congressional campaigns. We would cast many of the crazy candidates into the sea. We simply would not tolerate the MSM garbage for a second. Our ignorance of issues that will determine our personal and national survival is unbelievable.

Trump is a symptom of our national malfeasance. He is a joke. Then again the rest of the GOP field is a worse joke. Any one of them would be a disaster as president. And every day the GOP, RW or religion nuts make more insane statements that even schizophrenics cannot imagine. And their absurd pronouncement go unchallenged. What is worse the MSM parades these jokers around as legitimate.

2016 will be a historic election and will determine our fate. I am far from confident that the voters will get it right.
The electorate reminds me of a drunken sailor walking around on a ship in a hurricane. You have no idea if he will survive or not but likely he will not.

[cantbeserious]

1. All By Design - Corporations, Oligarchs And Banks Rely On Stupid To Stay In Business

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[BlueStateLib]

2. GC

[delrem]

3. Sure the Republicans suck up all the air in the room.

The Democratic Party hasn't even had a debate yet.
Stuck on stupid.
The MSM is all about opinion polls, and misremembering what happened before the latest tweet distracted them. Not that we'd notice!

The answer to "the stupid" sure isn't coming from "the establishment", from any of those airheads and poseurs.

[90-percent]

4. FZ

"Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity." - Frank Zappa


-90% Jimmy

[bobGandolf]

5. Stuck on Stupid is a good description.

I keep trying to find a reason for the weakness we display by not fighting the idiotic dialogue of the GOP, RW, or religion nuts. I'm starting to think we are scared of them....in the same way we put our heads down, sidestepped around, and said nothing, to the bullies in school. Intimidation of the MSM, with threats of boycotts that might hurt ratings, is the only reason I can see for their acceptance of insane statements that go unchallenged.
If our silent acceptance of the lunacy continues unchecked, I shudder at what the future will be like in the U.S.

[hobbit709]

6. H.L. Mencken said it best.

"If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y" —

[Fumesucker]

7. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others

[hobbit709]

8. Mencken and Ambrose Bierce never fail in describing American society.

[Fumesucker]

11. I'd add Twain to that list

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."

[hobbit709]

12. "A flea can be trained to do almost anything a Congressman can"

[bemildred]

13. Gore Vidal was pretty good when he was "on" too.

But yeah, those two.

[bemildred]

10. The Sahara of the Bozart -- H. L. Mencken

http://www2.fiu.edu/~sabar/enc3311/The%20Sahara%20of%20the%20Bozart%20-%20Mencken.pdf

[DFW]

9. Aaron Sorkin said it so well in the opening scene of The Newsroom

His character, Will McAvoy, said that in former times, we didn't fear intelligence: "we didn't little it. It didn't make us feel so inferior."

[PJMcK]

14. Ten word answers

There is an excellent episode of "The West Wing" called "Game On" that features the debate between President Bartlett and his Republican challenger. The President's team is trying to come up with ten-word answers to the possible debate questions and they're having trouble because the issues are too complex for such a short answer. During the debate, President Bartlett nails it: the United States is too large and too complex for simplistic solutions and he asks his rival, "What are the next ten words?"

In our current campaign, look at one example: Donald Trump says that he will deport 11 million illegal immigrants. But he never explains how he would do that. Think about how complex and difficult that proposal would be. Setting aside the legal, financial and operational issues, how would he move that many people? It would be like trying to empty New York City! It's impossible to do it but no one calls Mr. Trump out on it.

Our fellow citizens have been under-educated for at least two generations, thanks to the Republican's policies resulting in an inability to think critically and objectively. It frightens me.