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Ignorance now rules the U.S. Not the simple, if somewhat innocent ignorance that comes from an absence of knowledge, but a malicious ignorance forged in the arrogance of refusing to think hard about an issue. We most recently saw this exemplified in Donald Trump’s disingenuousness 2019 State of the Union address in which he lied about the amount of drugs streaming across the southern border, demonized the immigrant community with racist attacks, misrepresented the facts regarding the degree of violence at the border, and employed an antiwar rhetoric while he has repeatedly threatened war with Iran and Venezuela. Willful ignorance reached a new low when Trump — after two years of malicious tweets aimed at his critics — spoke of the need for political unity...
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While this story's author focuses on the Republican side of things, I feel that many among the Democrats are just as bad. Both Clintons were more like Republican-light then they were like Democrats and without question, Obama is and was in bed with Wall Street even as publicly he pushed for financial reform.
Americans have thrown critical thinking out the window in favor of blind party loyalty. The Trump phenomenon is only the most recent (and most blatant) example of this. Citizens United has ensured that Congress votes for the will of Exxon and Goldman Sachs rather than the will of the people.
Our country seems to be devolving into an oligarchy with strong autocratic undertones. The ignorance of the electorate paves the way for our government to engage in all sorts of disastrous acts from the War in Iraq fueled by fake reports of weapons of mass destruction to the refusal to educate our children by forcing the poor to make do with run down classrooms and mediocre teachers. We put our fingers in our ears while brainlessly regurgitating the lies of our favorite political party and refusing to think for ourselves.
We deny science by refusing vaccines that could save the lives of our children and believing that climate change is a hoax. We worship the dollar far more than we support the values of our democratic republic. If we continue on the same path as the one we are now mindlessly walking down, the US will lose it status as the most powerful nation to China where education is strongly valued and science is respected instead of being mocked.
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Ignorance now rules the U.S. Not the simple, if somewhat innocent ignorance that comes from an absence of knowledge, but a malicious ignorance forged in the arrogance of refusing to think hard about an issue. We most recently saw this exemplified in Donald Trump’s disingenuousness 2019 State of the Union address in which he lied about the amount of drugs streaming across the southern border, demonized the immigrant community with racist attacks, misrepresented the facts regarding the degree of violence at the border, and employed an antiwar rhetoric while he has repeatedly threatened war with Iran and Venezuela. Willful ignorance reached a new low when Trump — after two years of malicious tweets aimed at his critics — spoke of the need for political unity...
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While this story's author focuses on the Republican side of things, I feel that many among the Democrats are just as bad. Both Clintons were more like Republican-light then they were like Democrats and without question, Obama is and was in bed with Wall Street even as publicly he pushed for financial reform.
Americans have thrown critical thinking out the window in favor of blind party loyalty. The Trump phenomenon is only the most recent (and most blatant) example of this. Citizens United has ensured that Congress votes for the will of Exxon and Goldman Sachs rather than the will of the people.
Our country seems to be devolving into an oligarchy with strong autocratic undertones. The ignorance of the electorate paves the way for our government to engage in all sorts of disastrous acts from the War in Iraq fueled by fake reports of weapons of mass destruction to the refusal to educate our children by forcing the poor to make do with run down classrooms and mediocre teachers. We put our fingers in our ears while brainlessly regurgitating the lies of our favorite political party and refusing to think for ourselves.
We deny science by refusing vaccines that could save the lives of our children and believing that climate change is a hoax. We worship the dollar far more than we support the values of our democratic republic. If we continue on the same path as the one we are now mindlessly walking down, the US will lose it status as the most powerful nation to China where education is strongly valued and science is respected instead of being mocked.
To put it simply and as my mom always used to say...stupid people are dangerous people
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To put it simply and as my mom always used to say...stupid people are dangerous people
More than most realize.
Check this out:
Law 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
Ignorance now rules the U.S. Not the simple, if somewhat innocent ignorance that comes from an absence of knowledge, but a malicious ignorance forged in the arrogance of refusing to think hard about an issue. We most recently saw this exemplified in Donald Trump’s disingenuousness 2019 State of the Union address in which he lied about the amount of drugs streaming across the southern border, demonized the immigrant community with racist attacks, misrepresented the facts regarding the degree of violence at the border, and employed an antiwar rhetoric while he has repeatedly threatened war with Iran and Venezuela. Willful ignorance reached a new low when Trump — after two years of malicious tweets aimed at his critics — spoke of the need for political unity...
Moderator cut: copyright violation
While this story's author focuses on the Republican side of things, I feel that many among the Democrats are just as bad. Both Clintons were more like Republican-light then they were like Democrats and without question, Obama is and was in bed with Wall Street even as publicly he pushed for financial reform.
Americans have thrown critical thinking out the window in favor of blind party loyalty. The Trump phenomenon is only the most recent (and most blatant) example of this. Citizens United has ensured that Congress votes for the will of Exxon and Goldman Sachs rather than the will of the people.
Our country seems to be devolving into an oligarchy with strong autocratic undertones. The ignorance of the electorate paves the way for our government to engage in all sorts of disastrous acts from the War in Iraq fueled by fake reports of weapons of mass destruction to the refusal to educate our children by forcing the poor to make do with run down classrooms and mediocre teachers. We put our fingers in our ears while brainlessly regurgitating the lies of our favorite political party and refusing to think for ourselves.
We deny science by refusing vaccines that could save the lives of our children and believing that climate change is a hoax. We worship the dollar far more than we support the values of our democratic republic. If we continue on the same path as the one we are now mindlessly walking down, the US will lose it status as the most powerful nation to China where education is strongly valued and science is respected instead of being mocked.
Yawn......
i.e. "I'm smarter than anyone who disagrees with me."
The Democrats are not “just as bad”; we need to stop with these false equivalencies. Politics from the right wing in this country, thanks in large part to the propaganda media they consume, has created the notion there are no “facts”, and that science and statistics are just as opinion/belief-based as religion or political preference.
The Democrats are not “just as bad”; we need to stop with these false equivalencies. Politics from the right wing in this country, thanks in large part to the propaganda media they consume, has created the notion there are no “facts”, and that science and statistics are just as opinion/belief-based as religion or political preference.
The Democrats are just as bad. The majority of wars this country has been in in the last 120 years have been started, instigated, or escalated by Democrats.
To put it simply and as my mom always used to say...stupid people are dangerous people
The premise of the OP, and your comment, are way more dangerous.
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