stupid people can be decisive - they keep deciding to do stupid stuff!

[wyldwolf]

From Yahoo News headline:

AP Poll: More Voters See Bush As Decisive

What the headling doesn't tell is 20% more voters see Kerry as more intelligent than Bush.

Yep! Stupid is as stupid decides to do!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040713/ap_on_el_pr/candidate_qualities&cid=694&ncid=716

[Spentastic]

1. This always pisses me ff

Stupid people in my experience tend to be decisive. Making the wrong decision quickly is not a character trait I admire. Reminds me of this gem from the Simpsons.

Homer “There’s the right way, the wrong way and the Max Power way”
Bart “ Isn’t that usually the wrong way?”
Homer “Yeah, but faster!”

[lapfog_1]

7. "Your miserable life is not worth the reversal of a Custer decision. "-EOM

[Ruffhowse]

2. Decisive just means rushing to judgement without all the facts...

....or a poor understanding of the facts. Anyone can be decisive, but Bush has a LONG record of being decisively WRONG. I'll take intelligent any day.

[achtung_circus]

3. We discussing this at work

as we typically deal with the terminally stupid.

The concensus seems to be that you have to make decisions quickly at times, but you also have to be able to recognize when you have time and use that time to make considered decisions.

Make appropriate decisions, appropriate to the info you have and appropriate to the time you have.

Hmmmm. Like, maybe, taking the time to let insoections work.

[amber dog democrat]

4. yup

This is the whole premise behind Dostoyevski's MAN OF ACTION from Notes from the Undergound. Basically stupid. Sees no consequences of his actions.
But he IS decisive.

Eventually he will charge off of a cliff, but not soon enough to spare the world from more of his rapacious, greedy stupidity. This is a fool who choses to be ignornat.

[NC_Nurse]

5. I guess most people

are afraid to have a leader who is smarter than them. In fact, people seem to be hostile to anything that points out their lack of sophistication and intellectual effort.

Consume and then die. The Plan for a New American Millenium: don't think too much - you might realize you're being screwed!

[shraby]

6. It's true that sometimes a quick decision

is needed, but an intelligent person making the quick decision brings a lot more to bear on that decision than a stupid person and therefore is more apt to make the right decision.