On 8/21/2011 3:19 AM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>> I seems only fitting that by 2036 the US might be so fucking stupid that
>> they couldn't build a log cabin from his time, let alone work out why
>> living in one would be preferable to huddling under a tree, or wearing
>> animal skins in a cave... Or, so it sometimes seems the trajectory of
>> some of this stupid shit is headed.
>
> I think sometimes it's hard to tell whether the entire world is stupid,
> or just a vocal minority.
>
Vocal minority, plus a big non-vocal minority, who just want shit to 
work, but not why or how. Just had one bozo on MSNBC last night all but 
*admit* that Rick Perry, the Texas governor, who has driving his state 
into a worse condition than the rest of the country, but now wants to 
run to be president, is selling his constituents his own ideas, based on 
fear, deception, and misinformation, because, "people are reacting to 
what they feel is wrong, not the facts. The facts, such as Bush's last 
days being a hemorrhaging of jobs, while Obama managed to at least 
stabilize things, are basically irrelevant to the process of deciding 
who the next Republican candidate is, or whether he will be elected."

The mans entire argument seemed to hinge in this being perfectly OK, 
nothing wrong with it, for the most part, and entirely irrelevant to the 
well being of the country. It was just how the right wing had to "sell" 
the problem to their ignorant, stupid, angry, and wanting things to get 
better, constituents. The fact that none of what was being sold to them 
can or will solve the problems, most of it is stuff that caused them in 
the first place, and that actually basing your policies of reality is 
*necessary* to fix things, where all meaningless. My jaw would have 
dropped, but it still hadn't receded from the floor from earlier, when 
Bachman claimed that people where still afraid of the rising power of 
the USSR (yeah, Soviet Russia), which she apparently failed to not the 
fall of, while working cleverly inside the IRS to undermine the federal 
tax system, before she decided to run for office some place else.

Fact is, most people don't want to know anything. Its inconvenient to do 
so. So, the end game of that is that what sells, i.e., what speaks to 
the gut at the time, matters, and silly things like facts, statistics, 
truth.. well, those just don't sell as well, so fewer people will listen 
to them. As long as people, "trust their gut", which has the brains of 
Homer Simpson...

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