Reply #28: do you really want to know why? because it ain't pretty [View All]

[pitohui]

i think it's simple math, the average IQ is around 100, and if you know some folks with 100 IQ then they're pretty damn stupid, a large majority of the population (of any country) is stupid either by dint of natural brains (ain't got none), inexperience (they might be very bright but don't yet have the experience to make good decisions, you often find the young libertarians in this group, because it "sounds" logical and it takes experience to realize why laissez faire can't work), or age-related mental decline (let's face it, a lot of us lose some edge as we get older)

at the end of the day, the smart people at the top of their game are going to be a minority of voters

so the democrats (and frankly ALL leaders of ANY party ANYWHERE) feel that they have to spend a lot of time catering to the majority who are, if we're honest with ourselves, pretty much fuckwits

tim leary used to spend a lot of time talking about "intelligence increase" and honestly if we don't find a way to accomplish this in time, democracy is probably a lost cause, maybe the planet itself a lost cause

thru a sad twist of fate, while intelligent compared to say your average warthog, the human race isn't quite intelligent enough

that's why i don't spend much time berating the democrats, i think it's a systemic problem, i'm sure the republicans mutter just as much about how much time they have to spend pandering to their fuckwits