Republicans Are Stupid, and Proud of It.

Barack Obama is going to talk to schools on Tuesday, encouraging kids to work hard and stay in school. There are two "schools" of thought about this address. On the one hand, most people think it's a good idea, no harm in it. On the other hand, you have the paranoid, delusional ignoramuses that make up the core of the Republican Party.

I don't know of any issue that more clearly demonstrates the differences we have in this country. There is only one side to this issue. People who object to the address have no case whatsoever, literally nothing to support any argument, and yet they persist, passionately.

A lot of people in this country really despise Barack Obama. I wonder why. He has been compared to Hitler and Stalin, been called a Communist, Fascist, and Nazi. So what has he done to deserve this hate? He campaigned on the themes of hope and change. He has tried to reach out to Republicans and take a centrist position. His major initiatives so far have been to try to save a failing economy and to try to improve the health care system. Rational people can disagree with his proposals, but can rational people hate someone for working on these problems? No, they can't. But irrational people can, and do.

I worry that we are truly becoming a red and blue nation, with the two sides unable to ever agree. As long as the red side continues to be divorced from reality, there is no hope that we can come together. Unfortunately, they are getting worse instead of better. Every week they seem to get a little crazier.

People are Stupid

A guy named Larry Winget just wrote a book called "People are Idiots and I Can Prove It." I don't think I can ever write a book now, because the best title has been taken.

When it comes to politics, I tend to believe that things will eventually go the way they should. For example, gay marriage is more and more a mainstream idea and is becoming legal in more states, despite the occasional setback, in California for example. But in the end, people will see the light, and good ideas will rise to the top, and the segregationists and gay-haters of the world will fade into the background.

The George W. Bush administation made me doubt this. I will always contend that anyone who voted for that fool in 2004 was either ignorant, evil, irrational, or some combination of the three. However, the 2008 election made me believe again. People can be fooled, but not forever. They were getting wiser.

The health care "debate" has made me doubt again. People stand up and shout to disrupt town halls, and I bet most of them have no idea what they are talking about. Who are these morons? People believe that Barack Obama was not born in the US, despite his birth certificate, and they believe that health care legislation contains "death panels" that are going to decide to withhold care from older and infirm Americans. Who are those morons? The same morons, or different ones?

The truth is that in a democracy, every idiot gets a vote, and there are too many idiots out there voting. Millions of people watch Fox News and listen to Rush Limbaugh and believe what they hear. Unfortunately, these knuckleheads control our destiny. The people who run Fox News understand that their viewership comes mainly from the 50% of the country with IQs under 100, and they are very adept at manipulating this pathetic group. We cannot count on our fellow citizens to make responsible decisions, and we all suffer as a result.