How Last Night's Debate Proved the Dumbing Down of America is Real
You'll never guess what reading level last night's debate was at.
Told ya the once Useful idiots, in the early 1900's, continuing the dumbing down trend to the present has created UseLESS idiots and they all work in or wana be, In Government to rule over YOU!
Told ya the once Useful idiots, in the early 1900's, continuing the dumbing down trend to the present has created UseLESS idiots and they all work in or wana be, In Government to rule over YOU!
Cicero said that a nation deserved its leaders. Taken to its logical conclusion, if the electorate is lazy, stupid and looking for something for nothing, there will always be a "sleazeball" politician (notice I said politician and not statesman-woman) that will act foolishly and give the "Rubes" exactly what they want regardless of the damage and destruction they are doing to the country and our once great society!
Look into the mirror! We have met the enemy and the enemy is us - getting just what we deserve!
Being able to observe one's own behavior is a sign of Consciousness...so, what's the logical conclusion?
Obama said what he wanted to do, how he wanted to do it and then for the most part followed through. The end results were arguably quite predictable. What was not predictable was the fecklessness of the "loyal opposition" within the Beltway political class! Outcome reached, logic again won out even though it is a hollow victory.
Now we are heading into uncharted territory whereas the outcome based on where we are will probably end up being tyranny by a despot. That is about where we are wouldn't you say?
In very very loose terms, Republicans are a coalition of people who a) want gov't out of their way and limited by the Constitution and b) rednecks. The Democrats are a coalition of people a) who want a handout in some form or another and b) people who don't want to vote for rednecks. The object of the debate is to convince undecided people, many of whom aren't that into the details, that the Republican is an extreme redneck or the Democrats is a supporter of extreme handouts.
An example of this is Clinton delivered a prepared line about Trump being sexist, and Trump had no pre-prepared comeback. So score one for Clinton for making Trump look redneck. Next time Trump will probably have had his experts prepare a comeback that makes him look non-redneck and Clinton look like she favors extreme handouts.
If you watch it at face value, though, you think "this is our society's idea of discussion public policy!? We've become idiots." That's not right though. It's our idea of using existing urban-vs-rural and egghead-vs-philistine differences to sway people who aren't all that into policy.
Just a Big Tit for Tat.
I would have no idea how to answer such a question. I would have asked Matthews if he ever studied math and what is his favorite identity equation in advanced math. Like Johnson he probably would not have had an answer of anything other than maybe 2+2=4 of arithmetic. The game of politics has an unlimited number of questions to destroy a candidate. Most dishonest candidates have ready made answers or can create an answer easily. Gary Johnson is too honest to give a BS answer.
America's founders were seeking an enlightened system to free humans from their animal roots. That Gary could not think of one admirable power-wielder is to his credit. Weld's mentioning of Shimon Peres was an inspired move for the Jewish vote. Adding Merkel as an afterthought was for balance. I would not want to name individual heads of state but more the governments that are wise enough to stay out of wars. Say, like Switzerland or Finland, and possibly Denmark; those with a policy of trade, not raid.
Notice that Gary Johnson probably has a far better grasp of world affairs, without having memorized an encyclopedia, and is honest enough to admit not being omniscient, while Trump blusters and swaggers past his own vast ignorance. Vis a vis other countries' leaders, Hillary is a mere sycophant. To me it is more important that a candidate be able to hold the right principles and be able to learn than to win trivia contests. By that measure, Gary Johnson is tops.
My impression of matthews is he went from the boob, right into the news and skipped everything inbetween...probably replaced the boob with booze as well.
I just had to keep peeking back, though.
Believe I was fascinated by what this Branco cartoon looked like~
http://patriotupdate.com/holt-lary-tr...
(the Arkansas is strong in this one)...[banjo music in the background]
http://patriotupdate.com/cartoon-stro...
Perhaps, however, he was waiting to really blow her out of the water a bit closer to the election when she would have less time to combat them.
More revealing to me were the numbers from the Florida early voting: 880,000 for Trump, 650,000 for Clinton (technically, not really votes, as I think it's the count of Republican and Democrat ballots mailed in). Whether this is an indication of some real surprises ahead, I can't say.
You must be a phoba phobe
We've gotta put you in a basket with the rest of the phobes.
it is inching closer and closer to the complete idiot stage.
setting up UVA. Not only is education not part of
the proper purpose of government (except maybe
for police academies, military technical training, and such), as it is not a police function; but, as
it teaches thought processes, it is something the
government should definitely not be in charge of. And I think that Jefferson and other import-
and men of his day were very mistaken not to
realize this.