credit to The Daily Dish for this tidbit, and EFL to get to the juicy parts
By NEAL STARKMAN, GUEST COLUMNIST, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Millions of words have been written as to the motivations of voters. Particularly in close elections, as in the 2000 presidential contest, pundits and laypeople alike have speculated on why people voted for whom. The exit poll has been a major tool in this speculation. But the speculation misses the mark by far. It's increasingly obvious, for example, that none of the so-called theories can explain President Bush's popularity, such as it is. Even at this date in his presidency, after all that has happened, the president's popularity hovers at around 50 percent — an astonishingly high figure, I believe, given the state of people's lives now as opposed to four years ago...
It’s the "Stupid factor," the S factor: Some people — sometimes through no fault of their own — are just not very bright.
you mean democrats?
| Duhhh... Who youse talkin' about? |
It’s not merely that some people are insufficiently intelligent to grasp the nuances of foreign policy, of constitutional law, of macroeconomics or of the variegated interplay of humans and the environment.
yup, gotta be talking about janeane gorillafalo and mike moore
| Oh, good. It ain't me. Huh huh! |
These aren’t the people I’m referring to. The people I’m referring to cannot understand the phenomenon of cause and effect. They’re perplexed by issues comprising more than two sides. They don’t have the wherewithal to expand the sources of their information. And above all — far above all — they don’t think.
Tarnation Ma! he’s talkin ’bout us REE-publikans! git ma shotgun, i’m goin ta Seeatul!
You know these people; they’re all around you (they’re not you, else you would not be reading this article this far). They’re the ones who keep the puerile shows on TV,
(oh, that evil evil foxnews; i’ve never seen a roomful of liberals watching ’Survivor’; oh, waitaminnit)
who appear as regular recipients of the Darwin Awards, who raise our insurance rates by doing dumb things, who generally make life much more miserable for all of us than it ought to be. Sad to say, they comprise a substantial minority — perhaps even a majority — of the populace.
the worst part about being a neoconservative mouth-breather is the chapped lips
Yes please, make sure your man doctor dean uses this a platform in his candidacy - "You people are so stupid that you need ME and my socialist government to protect you from yourselves!" |