People don’t want to face facts, they want to be pandered to, and no one does that better than Republicans.
Republicans are very suspicious of “smart” people, because “smart” = “elite” and they have successfully labeled “elites” as being out of touch with ordinary Americans
So long as people choose to live in denial, there will always be politicians to sell them whatever myth they want to believe:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/opinion/16brooks.html
Actually most Americans really in fact are quite STUPID because they don’t/can’t/won’t understand current events or affairs that are happening around them; instead they prefer to be led by the nose by people who talk down to them, as long as they believe they can have a beer or a coffee with that person. (“Hey, he’s just like one of us! I don’t know how the frigging economy works, and neither does he! I’m definitely voting for him now!”)
It worked with Bush, and it’s going to work with Palin.
Speaking of Palin, she truly scares me. Forget about 4 more years of Bush, imagine a female Dick Cheney:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html
And I’m thoroughly convinced that most Americans are stupid since I had an argument in Times Square with an average tourist from Kansas (not making this up) who swore that Jesus Christ spoke English because her BIBLE was written in English. Yes, people, these are the salt-of-the-earth people that are the backbone of this country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/opinion/14friedman.html
Reminds me of the scene in ‘Blazing Saddles’ when the Gene Wilder tells the sheriff (the man, the legend, Cleavon Little), “You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.”
Fight the good fight everyone, but I fear these are PRECISELY the reasons why the Republicans will win. I’ve been contributing $50 every month to Obama’s campaign since March of 2007 (LONG before he even gained national prominence because I knew he would be a different, more ethical and better kind of leader), but if the Dems screw this up then I will never, not ever, vote for them again.
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