The Public Policy Polling agency released it's newest poll today. The result: 39% of Americans think the US Government should stay out of Medicare. That's right folks, 39% of your fellow Americans don't realize what Medicare even is. Medicare is health coverage run by the United States Government. Totally by the government that is. The Government should stay out of Medicare? The Government IS MEDICARE.
That's right, 39% of Americans are total idiots. In this same poll, 38% weren't sure if President Obama was born in the United States. 6% weren't even sure if Hawaii was a state!
In other recent polls: 24% of Americans can't name the country America fought in the Revolutionary War. A majority of Americans can't name a single branch of Government or explain what the Bill of Rights is. A Gallup poll found that 18% of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth.
What conclusion do we draw from this? We are a nation full of idiots.
Even James Madison wrote that pure democracy won't work because there is nothing to check an obnoxious individual.
Allow me to quote Bill Maher:
These are the idiots we want to weigh in on the minutia of health care policy? Please, this country is like a college chick after two Long Island Iced Teas: we can be talked into anything, like wars, and we can be talked out of anything, like health care. We should forget town halls, and replace them with study halls. There's a lot of populist anger directed towards Washington, but you know who concerned citizens should be most angry at? Their fellow citizens. "Inside the beltway" thinking may be wrong, but at least it's thinking, which is more than you can say for what's going on outside the beltway.
That's right folks, only in America can poor people be talked into being against and protesting something that will actually HELP THEM. Idiots.
How have we come to this? I think there are two reasons, both dating back into the 1970s, both reasons have reduced us to a society of dolts that can't institute a Public Health policy that was instituted by almost everybody else in the industrialized world years ago. The rest of the world sits back and laughs at the American Idiots.
The first reason is the Anti-Intellectualism driven by the Radical right wing. Don't let your kids go to public school. Don't let them learn about Evolution. Certainly don't let them attend a college or university. These places are just dens of liberals! We have been made to be afraid of intellect and brains over the last 20 years. Where did this get us? It got us possibly the most idiotic president the country has seen, Mr. Bush the second, who sat at his ranch in Texas and wet his pants while Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. We have to be afraid of smart people because smart people might ask to change something. We can't have that either. No change. Further more, why would we want to be intellectual and think if we can go our leaders and have them do the thinking for us? They tell us Obama is going to kill our grandma, and we swallow it hook, line, and sinker. Just like the fish who was too dumb to leave the worm alone. Natural Selection. Oh wait, we don't believe in that.
That brings me to the second reason, which is somewhat coupled with the first. We in America depend WAY TOO MUCH on religion to define our moral code and our beliefs. This is crazy. Not everything in the Bible is true. It doesn't take a genius to figure this out. If you honestly believe that everything in the Bible is literal truth, you're an idiot and you need to have your head examined. Bible literalists have recognized that the Biblical account of creation doesn't jive with the scientific evidence, so they concoct a new story that the Earth is only 6000 years old. Folks, the earth is millions of years old if it's a day. Even the astronomers at the Vatican Observatory believe this. If you don't believe this, go back to school and surrender your voter registration card at the door.
The Bible says we can rape our wives, sell them into slavery. We should execute homosexuals and kids who backtalk their parents. Is this really the book we want guiding our society and our Government? The founders separated Church and state for a reason, and it wasn't to protect the church from the state.
I believe religion has a place. I believe that we can use the model of Christ's life to be compassionate to others, to love one another. I don't believe that the modern purpose for faith should be to abide by the endless list of dos and don'ts listed in the Bible. Sorry folks, most of it is myth, and don't even get me started on the Book of Mormon, a complete fabrication.
Yet a large number of people abide solely by religion. They sit in the pew and listen to and do exactly what the clergyman tells them to do. Take it from me folks. I was going to be a clergyman. They don't know anymore about anything than you do. In fact, if you paid attention in your gen ed classes in college, you probably know more than they do.
Anyway, I'm tired of the idiots. I want someone, President Obama, someone to stand up, call a spade a spade and tell these idiots that they're being lied to. No more compromise, no more negotiating with idiots and morons. Let's do Public health because it's the right thing to do, regardless of religious and right wing hate and lies. Just once I want to see liberals grow a spine and get something done! If we don't, we might find ourselves on the losing end of natural selection. Look it up.
When the future's architectured by a carnival of idiots, you better lie low....
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