… perhaps I
spend too much time on social media...
… perhaps I
read too much...
… perhaps I
know too much...
… or maybe
I'm just delusional...
… but I
keep seeing something that bothers the living shit out of me...
I've been in a
few “debates” with people who think public education should be
eliminated because (paraphrasing their arguments) “education is
liberal indoctrination.” It always comes from the same types of
people... Fundamentalist Christians who either send their children to
religious school or home-school them.
The bigger
problem is, it's spreading. A simple Google search will reveal A SHITLOAD of articles that people have written to make people FEAR the education system! Does that make ANY sense at all???
… and that's
just the beginning... barely scratching the surface of the problem...
Here's the
thing... OBVIOUSLY, stupid people are easier to control and
manipulate than people who are competent of the world around them.
There has even
been a Presidential Primary Candidate who espoused these beliefs;
Rick Santorum. Don't forget, he was also the guy who said, “We will never have the elite smart people on our side.”
Yes, there are
LITERALLY people IN GOVERNMENT who are asking you to retain your
ignorance... doesn't that just PISS YOU OFF???
Obviously,
these people are too stupid to recognize a stupid idea when they hear
it.
Is there any
way we could declare willful stupidity a form of insanity??? I mean,
that's completely antithetical to the PURPOSE of being alive... the
purpose of life is to ADVANCE THE SPECIES for the lives of those who
come after!
… and
advancement doesn't mean breeding like rabbits... it means making a
BETTER species; not a BIGGER species. If we're going to be the top
of the food chain, it should be because we have the tools to survive
and excel; not just because we have a large population!!!
So, when people
reject something that SHOULD be the most BASIC form of rationality,
shouldn't we be able to declare them to be a threat to themselves and
society? I wouldn't say it, if it weren't true... I mean, they ARE a
threat to themselves and society... just look at the House of
Representatives... look at the gerrymandering... look at the
Theocratic proposals... look at the denial of reality... all signs
that their INSANITY has done great damage to society, and through
their rejection of rationality, damage to themselves...
In jest, may I
suggest that we re-instate the “3/5 Compromise” in the 14thAmendment; but relate it to indoctrinated morons instead of black
people? Maybe then, they'll be forced to realize how stupid they
are, and they'll be forced to look at what their stupidity has done
to us...
… a man can
dream, can't he?
Seriously...
it's time we stopped letting the stupidest people make all the
decisions for us!!! I mean, look at all the morons who buy into
douchebags like Alex Jones (who may actually be a sign that evolution
CAN go in reverse)...
...look at all
the people who think Michele Bachmann is smart enough for government
(I swear, there is just something WRONG with that woman... maybe her
parents threw her on the “Tilt-A-Whirl” too early or something...
or maybe she just liked taking “clothes dryer rides” when she was
a kid)...
… look at all
the people who think Glenn Beck knows what he's talking about...
Yes, these
people are evidence that the “Dunning-Kruegger Effect” is alive
and well; and that it's causing us MAJOR problems within our voting
populous.
The Republicans
have allowed a culture of stupidity to fester and spawn; and now that
it's causing a problem, there's no turning back. They've allowed TOO
MUCH stupid to fill their ranks, and now they're rapidly becoming an
obsolete brand of Theocrats and indoctrinated fools.
I realize that
this may be a little too harsh for some people's taste... personally,
I don't give a shit...
I find
ignorance to be OFFENSIVE... and when that ignorance is WILLFUL, that
goes beyond offensive to despicable!
This trend can
be traced back to Ricard Nixon's “Southern Strategy.” He needed
votes, and he was desperate, so he decided to appeal to the Southern
“Dixiecrats,” who were basically the former Democrats who were
opposed to the direction that the party had taken with regards to
Civil Rights (women's suffrage, voting rights, etc).
Now, we all
know that bigots and misogynists are on the VERY BOTTOM of the
intellectual scale, so we can start to see where this is heading. By the time that Regan came along, the Plutocrats saw that all the dumbest people
were packaged up in a nice, neat little box, so they knew they could
easily control them with the fear and hate that already welled deeply
within them. Furthermore, they knew that many of them had
inseparable ties to their faith, which gave them another means of
control.
… draw the
conclusion that the whims of the rich are actually “Christian
values,” and they'll follow you FOREVER!
So, when it
worked for the bankers, then they knew it would work for the oil
industry... and the pharmaceutical industry... and any douchebag
employer who thinks their employees are lesser humans (I'm looking at
YOU, Wal Mart)... and the tobacco industry...
Eventually, it
became EASY for douchebags to deceive and control the dumbest among
us... they had people like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly to do
their bidding. They could convince people of anything they wanted.
… and then,
along came the climate discussion...
Knowing that
the base of the party was already prone to reject science in favor of
their own beliefs, they knew that it would be easy to convince people
that ecological studies are founded in “junk science,” so that
they didn't have to worry about pesky agencies like the EPA...
… I mean, if
it's science, then it MUST be against the Bible SHOMEHOW, right? God
made this world PERFECT, so nothing man can do has the power to break
it, right? If it's “God made,” then it must be flawless...
… seems
legit...
Now, all these
people have been so deceived that there may be no coming back from
this. They've spent so much time “cultivating stupid” that
there's not enough rationality left in the party to bring it back to
the centrist level that it needs to be in order for our country to
operate in the way that it needs to.
Translation:
we're in for a few REALLY HARD decades... get your helmets on,
because the repeated face-palms could, at some point, cause a
concussion...
... because
now, they haven't just “cultivated” the stupid... they've ELECTED
it!
Once the stupid
spreads far enough and seeps deep enough into the populous that
enough people are willing to ELECT the stupid, then it's seeped into
the foundation; which means the house has to be torn down and rebuilt
from the base up...
There will, of
course, be a period before the property is bought, in which the house
just sits there...
… condemned...
...boarded-up...
… haunted by
the demons of the past...
… who will
have to be exercised in order for rebuilding to take place...
… but until
then, you might want to wear waders in the basement, because the SHIT
gets DEEP!!!
The Republicans suck. End of story.
ReplyDeleteLove it. Great rant. I wish I'd written this.
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