Americans Are Stupid

That's not my opinion. That's a fact. And it doesn't surprise me one little bit.



Americans have been willfully dumbing themselves down for many, many years.

Our Founding Fathers were polymaths. They were educated and well read in mathematics, philosophy, literature, art, physics, geography, geometry, history, theology and political science.

If they were alive today they would be derided as "intellectual elitists".

Americans in 2010 don't want to know anything, they don't want to think about anything, they don't want to scrutinize the world around them and they sure as fuck don't want to examine their own lives.

Fuck, a significant number of Americans can't even find the United States on a map of the world and view any effort to get them to do so as "gotcha, drive by, journalism".

Americans in 2010 want to sit back on their fat white asses and have some television talking head tell them what they should think and believe.

Beck. Olberson. O'Reilly. Maher. They're all the fucking same.

Granted, I find some more entertaining than others, but I feel obligated to sample them all. Not as a source of actual information, but as a way of bookending the boundaries of extremity in the country.

Holy Fuck!

As that great, liberal, intellectual Statesman once said, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

To which Karl Rove countered "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

Our leaders today (and yes, I include President Obama and our Democratic Leadership)think they can just make shit up, call it real, and Americans will accept it as True.

After all, there's a precedent for that! That's what Americans do every Sunday when they go to church! "Oh! That guy up there in robes said something that's written in a really old book so it must be true! OK! I believe that!"

We live in a country where a significant number of people actually believe that a blithering, rambling, idiot, quitter from Alaska who reneged on her obligations to her constituents because she couldn't stand up to close scrutiny from the press and would rather get rich spewing venom and selling books should be within arms reach of the nuclear football!

We're doomed. Learn to speak Chinese.