Many Republican voters have to be among the dumbest people in the world

[Cyrano]

Did you ever notice that the Democratic Party has no crazies in the same league as Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Rand Paul, Newt Gingrich, Haley Barbour, Donald Trump, and too many more to name here?

Some of these nuts hold illusions of becoming president. And who knows? Given the widespread epidemic of stupidity/ignorance/insanity in today's America, one of them might just end up in the Oval Office.

Democrats are not perfect and there is no shortage of blue dogs who will pamper to imbeciles/bigots and know-nothings. But they are few and far between. And they are also recognized by most Democratic voters for what they are.

This post is less about the two parties than it is about the ignorance of far too many Americans who vote for Republicans. They don't seem to hold the values that we (the majority?) hold. They don't seem to grasp the fact that the Republican Party is fucking them every minute of every day. They don't seem to understand that their livelihoods, their quality of life, and their very survival is at stake in today's political wars.

You've got to be tremendously stupid to not see and recognize those who are trying to destroy you and your way of life. And for this reason, I believe that (non-wealthy) Americans who vote for Republicans, are among the dumbest people in the world.

[RagAss]

1. Actually, we need a Leftist Crazy !

[Bigmack]

15. They think that...

Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich, and Anthony Weiner are Leftist crazies.

That's because those men believe the earth is round and up is not down.

[RagAss]

25. Wait until a real one emerges.....then the country will smell of "shit in pants" repugs !

[dkf]

2. This is why talk of revolution makes me scratch my head.

We think that the government is screwed up and we can, I don't know, over throw it, but isn't it really a reflection of the votes of some unthinking people?

What do you do when you share your country with idiots?

[drm604]

4. Educate those few who can be educated

and try to outvote the rest.

[Cyrano]

6. Hard to outvote them when so many Republican governors are

doing everything possible to limit Democratic voters from getting to the polls.

We're up against a rigged deck. And why "A DEMOCRATICALLY CONTROLLED" Justice Dept. isn't doing anything about it is beyond me.

[dkf]

10. I don't understand why we allow people to go through life without getting picture IDs though.

Isn't this a significant handicap to getting a decent job and creating a financial life?

Instead of protesting IDs why aren't we helping poor people so that they can join the rest of society and participate in all the transactions that most of us do.

[drm604]

12. I've had similar thoughts.

I do think that we should definitely be fighting the new restrictive voting laws. No question.

But maybe it needs to be a two pronged attack. Fight the laws while at the same time helping people meet the requirements of those laws.

[saras]

16. Sometimes you just don't get something

"I don't understand why we allow people to go through life without getting picture IDs"
If you don't get it by now, it's a LONG, LONG education project.

"Isn't this a significant handicap to getting a decent job"
Depends on your definition of decent job, but basically, not really. It keeps you out of the corporate world, but finding a job in the corporate world that does more good than harm is at this point just about impossible.

"and creating a financial life? "
Given the current attitude of banks and other financial institutions, why would a sensible person want to do that? Much better to be creating relationships, trade and business as well as personal

Are we still talking about this fantasy of middle-class life continuing undisrupted through the 21st century?
Because I personally have no interest whatsoever in preserving it and its privileges - my interest is in improving the lives of people who choose productive work and wish to have lives outside of work. You know, ordinary people with jobs, families, friends, community involvements.

I haven't had to show ID to anyone except the police (and the airlines, before security put me off of flying), for at least a decade. This includes getting jobs, going to college, buying stuff over the internet, etc.

[dkf]

18. Well with the patriot act you can't open bank accounts nowadays without one.

In the old days maybe you could establish what you needed to but that is the past.

Unless you are part of the cash only underground economy which would make you a tax cheat.

[sloughtermark]

3. Shocking!

Question: How many republicans does it take to screw in a
light bulb?
Answer:   It doesn't matter....They'll never see the light!!!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. I think it was Benjamin D'Israeli who said

"It's not that most conservatives are stupid. It's just that most stupid people are coservatives."

[tpsbmam]

14. It was John Stuart Mill....the exact quote is

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.

He also said:How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds?

Both are apt. :rofl:

[Fla_Democrat]

7. Ok, then lets have an IQ test to be able to vote.

Republicans are stupid and/or evil. So let's have an IQ test for voting, and when/if people pass that.. have two booths set up. One says "Vote Here", and the other says "Kill Kittens here".

The kill kitteh booth has a trap door in it, and drops them into a waiting paddy wagon.

Any objections?


:smoke:

[Cyrano]

17. Nice try, Fla-Democrat.

There's only one ideology today that tries to keep people from voting. And if you need a hint, it's not the Democrats.

[Fla_Democrat]

19. Then, I guess people shouldn't gripe

about the results of stupid people voting? :shrug:



:smoke:

[izquierdista]

8. But George gave them $300!

And not a single one of them could calculate how long it took them to pour that $300 into their gas tank.

[DCBob]

9. I think the conservative Republican brain is simply wired differently..

They see most everything in a black and white, bad and good, right and wrong perspective. They are incapable of looking at something and seeing the gray area which is where the answer is usually found for most of the complex issues facing the world today. So to get votes, the Republican candidate simply needs to play to these extreme viewpoints... eg.. abortion is bad, guns are good, gays are bad, bible is good, big govt is bad, no taxes are good.. and on and on. As long as they saying these things over and over, it does not matter if they are kooky or dumb or ignorant.. they will get the conservative vote.

[Cyrano]

13. You may call it "wired differently," DCBob."

But in reading your post, my opinion is that you've described some really intelligence-challenged people. Perhaps my definition is less kind, but I would describe them as morons.

[liberal N proud]

11. The republicans have their voters right where they want them

Ignorant and compliant.

Their voters will support anything the republicans and the M$M toss into their empty little heads.

[AlanCranston]

21. there are dumb people in both parties

I would agree that republicans are generally dumber than democrats, but there are some dumb democrat areas too. Gene Green's district in Texas is probably one of the dumbest in the country. Only 6.9% of the people in his district have a bachelor's degree or higher and only a disturbing 53.5% have even a high school diploma.

[Cyrano]

22. Sorry, AlanCranston, but intelligence cannot be measured by formal education.

[Philippine expat]

29. Whats your point

some of the smartest people I know never went to college.
And some of the dumbest I know have advanced degrees

[Urban Prairie]

20. For some it simply boils down to their fundamentalist religious beliefs

They cannot condone abortion rights, and are preached to by their church leaders that voting for a pro-choice Democratic candidate is sinning in the eyes of their God.

Never mind that those same pious rightwing hypocrites by voting for a war-hawk Rethug, indirectly promote the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children in undeclared wars.

[Ozymanithrax]

23. Classic Dunning-Krucher Effect

When Ignorance Begets Confidence: The Classic Dunning-Kruger EffectThe Dunning-Kruger effect describes a cognitive bias in which people perform poorly on a task, but lack the meta-cognitive capacity to properly evaluate their performance. As a result, such people remain unaware of their incompetence and accordingly fail to take any self-improvement measures that might rid them of their incompetence.

[JoePhilly]

24. For too many Republicans you only need to tell them ....

You need to tell them ...

1) THEY are the most bestest Americans ever. They are the most patriotic. They love American MORE than "the others".

2) God loves them more than he loves "the others".

3) The reason that these "bestest ever American patrioits" don't have good jobs, good marriages, nice life, is because of "the others". It is "those people" who are at fault, not you, the "greatest God loving American patriots ever!!"

Having helped these folks see themselves as the "salt of the earth", the people who are the "fabric" of our nation, the ones who are morally superior, righteous, and God's chosen people ... you can do whatever you want to them ... and they will blame the scary "other".

[strawberryfield]

26. I don't think the "Republicans are stupid" meme serves us well

I see it here at DU and other progressive circles I occasionally visit. It is this tendency among some on the left to assume that all the Republicans are complete morons. We laugh at these people at every opportunity, but the guys on the other side have won more than their share of the battles in the last 30 years. Maybe if we didn't spend so much time laughing at them, we would be more focused on how to defeat them.

[Indykatie]

27. The Fact that They Have Won So many Elections

is simply because there are so many of them. Ridiculing them doesn't mean that we are not focused on doing everything we can to beat them in politics. Most here at DU will not appreciate being chastised by a relative newcomer on the scene.

[TheKentuckian]

28. The voters are stupid or at least very simplistic. Many of ours are little better off as they see a

(D) after a name and think it is set it and forget it time.

The majority are completely partisan on both sides. Blind or not partisans will vote their party no matter what they do or stand for. A few can be made to sit home but both parties have at least 40% locked down completely.

The two party system dictates this and makes democracy or a republic only illusions designed to give the trappings of choice while essentially removing it.

[lib2DaBone]

30. Republicans ae happy if they can buy your house, your car ,and your children..

This is the goal of the financial elite.. the Repukes and the well-to-do.

They want to bust you down to the lowest level.. while at the same time.. taking every penny you have ever known.

There is no such thing as a "level" playing field when you deal with a Repukes.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

31. Considering most Republicans are bible thumpers...

Religion doesn't exactly encourage thinking of any sort. This is not a coincidence. Be sure you are encouraging your children to learn and suck up any knowledge they can find. Let's end this cycle once and for all.

[Canuckistanian]

32. The best and the brightest stay FAR away from public office

Instead, they work at Think Tanks or in "public relations" or as policy wonks for Congressmen or Senators.

The GOP isn't stupid. But the public faces they present to the world as politicians is.... pathetic.

But the politicians don't have to be Einsteins. They just have to get the reins of power.

The rest is up to the "backroom boys" who actually set the policies and draft the legislature.

[larwdem]

33. YES

DUMB AND DUMENER:applause: