Comments on: America Needs a War on Stupid

By: David Harris

David Harris — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:47:41 +0000

All countries have their share of what I like to call the back room idiot. However, one of the problems that I believe is particularly relevant to America is its isolationism. I don’t mean this in the political sense. I mean it in the literal sense. America is a big country with adequate resources, it could indeed survive without world trade if required to do so. Furthermore, a great many people live in relatively small townships far apart. Equally a large number of people are disinterested in their nearest neighbour or their political opinions. This can lead to a narrow polarization of viewpoint that, speaking as an Englishman, can sometimes seem a little naive when voiced, or if you wanted to be particularly cruel, perhaps a shade silly. When a contender for the Republican party can stand up and say ‘ There are three things we must get rid of in this country’ then cheerfully admit after quoting two of them that ‘ I’ve just forgotten what the other one was for the moment’ then of course the world laughs. Obviously Americans are not all stupid, to say so is rather like the current trend of calling all Baby Boomers parasites, but it would be wrong to brush over the fact that some Americans should speak only after considerable thought.

By: John Butler

John Butler — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:15:04 +0000

I was beginning to think that America’s outhouse rats were apparent to only me and a few others. It is good to know that I am not an elitist. Maybe a bleeding heart liberal, but never an elitist.
Thanks for your good work
J.Butler

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By: an idiot abroad

an idiot abroad — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:46:33 +0000

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By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 10:25:35 +0000

When you can’t argue with facts you just call everyone stupid. Sad really…. No talk of the fiscal insanity of the Obama administration, no talk of how social security costs are going to rise 200% in the next ten years, the 800 billion dollars the fed just printed, and a complete the complete disregard of actual democracy. You can’t handle the fact that the country is beginning to realize there is no “free lunch” and our nation is headed down the road to complete economic collapse. The Republicans aren’t the answer but they are sure better than the democrats who can’t seem to realize that Europe already went down this road and is collapsing before our very eyes. Debt that is 100% + of GDP is not sustainable. You talk too much of Social Issues and not about the economic challenge we face which is what the people are really interested in not pot and gay marriage.

By: Brutal Truth

Brutal Truth — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:15:27 +0000

America is a very stupid country. Most people here can’t seem to figure out that it doesn’t matter who you vote for or IF you vote because all the choices are completely controlled by the billionaires that pull the strings on both hardly dissimilar parties. Where’s the party for the average non-wealthy American? I hear crickets chirping. Where’s the party that will give us single payer health care? End the wars for energy resource dominance? Give basic civil rights to gay folks? Legalize whatever adults want to smoke in the privacy of their own homes? Turn the C.I.A. into strictly an intelligence analyzing organ instead of maintaining it as a covert ops terrorist group? Give us a minimum wage that actually corresponds to the cost of living instead of being an insult to every working person? Give employees the right to easily unionize with the E.F.C.A.? Neither party, or I should say more accurately neither nearly-identical wing of the Big Business Billionaires’ Party, is willing to do any of this. Voting in this country is such a waste of time and so artificial that it makes professional wrestling look authentic.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:07:48 +0000

Speaking of Dumb-dumbs…the author displays an incredible ignorance himself (wink, wink), or a mental block, incapable of processing history and discerning fact and fiction.

I can only surmise from his diatribe that he is an idiologue (wink, wink).

By: LeftLeaningLady

LeftLeaningLady — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:18:43 +0000

I am taking a Political Theory class and on one of our recent quizzes the question was “What are some of the threats to our democracy?” My answer was: stupidity. Now I managed an entire paragraph, but it is true.

Unfortunately, I do believe our forefathers foresaw this occurance and that is why the only direct vote was to the House of Representatives and state legislators. Because stupid runs amok!

Excellant post!

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:34:50 +0000

This is the problem though. People who think they’re smarter than everyone else think they have the right to tell everyone what to do. That doesn’t sound like democracy, and it sounds like the death of liberty to me.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:29:34 +0000

Wow. I don’t even remember how I ended up here, but I’ll be back.

Thank you. I agree on all points, but especially this: “What’s most damning is not that crazy people are saying crazy things, but that intelligent people are taking them seriously.”

I mean, really, when did we decide that the idiots who dwell on the fringes should get equal time in the mainstream media? It’s unconscionable.

And yes, I actually know when, but that doesn’t make it any less ridiculous.