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Randy Oats, that is the most

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:39:52 +0000

Randy Oats, that is the most thought-provoking & accurate observation I've ever seen. No sarcasm intended, I can finally stop reading these political blogs because somebody has finally stated the truth so clearly. Incredible. Thank you.

The biggest secret of

Randy Oats — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:45:52 +0000

In reply to Stuff I Want to Learn: Why Are Republicans So Dumb?

The biggest secret of politics, and political strategists, is the knowledge that the majority of people are now medically, clinically, scientifically-provable brain damaged, ignorant lumbering shades of what people used to be.

The Norman Rockwell icon of the “we are just plain folks in our overalls working hard on our farms” demographic of the average citizen is gone. Replaced by a drug addled, alcohol addled, Prozac addled, junk-food-brain-damaged horde of inner city gangsters, media catatonics, trophy wives, arrogant yuppie hipsters, obese pita-pocket gobbling, Jerry Springer addicts.

In other words, a large number of the voting public are really, really dumb; Dumber than ever and easily brainwashed. They are increasing in numbers.
The CIA discovered that you can brainwash some people in a matter of hours and most people in 5 days or less. Madison Avenue then perfected their techniques. “Over-messaging” is the intelligence agency technique of brainwashing an entire country (millions of people) over the course of a year or two, with subtle concept reinforcement. It is done in a way so that the population does not really notice it and so they think it was their idea. A successfully accomplished intelligence effort of this kind is called a “regime change” or “national transition effort”, on Madison Avenue it is called a: “marketing campaign”.

The increase in Reality TV shows about exceptionally stupid people has to do with the smart people turning off their TV’s and the dumb people increasing in numbers. The dumb ones are the only ones the TV networks can get to watch but they have to meet them on their level. Domestic education scores are dropping through the basement. Many high school students can’t read a book. The population is getting stupid at the speed of light.

At college you can get smart but if you get too smart you might observe and realize all of the things in this essay are true so not everybody gets to go to college. If you aren’t addicted to something then you might see too clearly so the underwriting of the alcohol and drug industry continues (with your tax dollars)
So you have the smart ones and the dumb ones (think Morlocks and Eloi) if you run the current cycles and patterns out into the future you might actually end up with Morlocks and Eloi. (If you still know how to read books you will know what this reference is, the rest of you: Google it) One wonders if the current fad about Zombies has to do with the public’s second sight on his potential future.

Political strategists exploit the dumb hordes by triggering their primal instincts using very base advertising concepts: “The bad guys will get you if you don’t vote for us” (Fear); “You won’t be able to get money to pay for your addictions if you don’t let us create the jobs” (Security); etc. An entire campaign can be won without the need to appeal to any intelligent voters. The bestial ones can bring in the majority more often than not.

If you are reading this, you may be saying: “oh, I’m not one of them” but if you don’t read the news daily from multiple sources, if you only have products from the eye-level shelf at Safeway in your cupboards and if you watch “reality TV” shows… you just might be one. But you have one last chance to escape…

The only advantage that one side has over the other is money. If the law, the Constitution and the public demand said that every penny spent by one voice in an issue must be equal to that spent by any other voice, almost all of the injustice issues would dissolve. The sides that have all of the money will never let such a law exist. Your only hope is to change that!

Make the law or end up as a Zombie!

Why are they so dumb? Well,

MrSmith1 — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:18:36 +0000

In reply to Stuff I Want to Learn: Why Are Republicans So Dumb?

Why are they so dumb? Well, I think there is a certain segment of Republicans that are willfully dumb. Determined stupidity, so to speak. They made their minds up, and no matter what, that is what they will continue to shout and rant about. As example, I offer an exchange I had with someone on Facebook. On Tuesday, this person posted about Obama's Monday night speech. She wrote: "Did Obama just call America a grand experiment? WTF??!!" Naturally, all her Conservative pals weighed in about how awful it was and what a terrible person Obama was, blah, blah, blah. Now, I'm no history scholar, but I do know some things, and one of those things is that the concept of America being a 'grand experiment' is one that goes back to Thomas Jefferson and the other founding fathers. So, without making a political statement, I simply explained to her that this was not an outrageous statement and I gave her some historical context and assured her that almost every President at some point had used that expression to describe America. To which, this person replied, "Never heard it before. Why would it be considered an experiment at all? You think the people that came over on the mayflower thought it was an experiment?" I replied back with the explanation that in the 18th century, no-one was really sure that a country could be run with direct representation, and that America was considered a grand experiment in Democracy, even quoting Thomas Jefferson at the Constitutional Convention: " “No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth." I added that she needed to put the phrase in context, and I asked would she be offended to hear Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan use the phrase, because it's never been taken as an insult, but rather as a description of the vibrancy and greatness of America's concept of democracy... To which she replied, " ... YES I would be as taken aback by the statement whether it be Ghandi, Bush, The Pope, Obama or any of the others you mentioned."

That, to me, says it all. Willful ignorance. They have their interpretation and you can't change it by telling them the truth. They want to be outraged and won't be mollified by the wrongness or ignorance of their opinions.

How do we deal with that kind of dumb? Well, we've tried reasoning with them, perhaps we need to go the other way and try being even stupider ... At this point, I'm so frustrated with the idiocy of these people that I'm actually considering the stupider-than-them approach. Arrrggghhhhh!

Another way to ask the

moat — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:20:24 +0000

In reply to Stuff I Want to Learn: Why Are Republicans So Dumb?

Another way to ask the question is to ask why the years the Republicans were in the driver's seat is something they don't have to account for in any way. The Tea Party is a rhetorical oddity because they act like none of their ideas have ever been applied in actual space/time. They have.

Maybe the Republican leadership is a troupe of Mimes. Language itself has become the intellectual property of the Liberals so the Conservatives are left with Gestures and Government Contracts to express their point of view.

How does one (or many) countervail against such a device?

I guess trolls like to accuse

Donal — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:45:51 +0000

In reply to It seems odder that you think

I guess trolls like to accuse others of being trolls, and sock-puppets like to accuse others of being sock-puppets, etc.

It seems odder that you think

Verified Atheist — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:40:50 +0000

In reply to It seems odd that American

It seems odder that you think my first post as Verified Atheist was on 25 July @ 10:38 AM, when you can find a post from me on 1/25/2011 @ 6:43 pm on this thread:

http://dagblog.com/religion/congress-spend-100000-engrave-god-we-trust-visitors-center-811

(Although I'm not sure why I bother responding.)

It seems odd that American

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:28:12 +0000

In reply to Instead of basing your

It seems odd that American Dreamer referred to Verified Atheist as VA on 25 July @09:55 AM, which was before Verified Atheist's 1st post on 25 July @10:38 AM. It appears that American Dreamer was responding to the original Atheist's posts from last year. The Dreamer must have had a premonition that Atheist would become Verified Atheist. Spooky.

I suspected as much, but

Verified Atheist — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:00:40 +0000

In reply to Uh Atheist, in case it wasn't

I suspected as much, but didn't want to accuse him outright of such. Thanks, Genghis.

Uh Atheist, in case it wasn't

Michael Wolraich — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 01:25:54 +0000

In reply to First, I'm guessing your

Uh Atheist, in case it wasn't apparent to you from the troll population explosion on a two-year-old thread, Tin Cup = B4 = kirby. I'm banning it.

Instead of basing your

Verified Atheist — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 01:05:41 +0000

In reply to I'm not backing anybody.

Instead of basing your beliefs on your perceptions of relative reliability, you'd be better off basing your beliefs on methodology, especially as how it relates to the question at hand. That question was not, by the way, who's smarter. From my perspective, it was merely an academic question (the kind I enjoy most) about who would benefit most from a significantly advanced polling test. (I will agree with B4, however, that Republicans would benefit from a rudimentary polling test, as it would adversely affect the bottom half of the U-shaped curve.)

I missed this response when composing my previous comment about my guess that you thought AmericanDreamer and I were the same person. Since you referred to me as "American Atheist", I'll take that as confirmation of my guess. I wonder if s/he is as amused as I am.