Are people in this country stupid or what?

[butterfly77]

I keep hearing that the senators or congress men and women who are up for election 2006 are backing away from bush now so that they can win the election. IF these same people saw this House and senate voting against all of their rights and going along with bush for the past five years, are they suppose to forget all of that now that they see bush was lying. I know damn well they saw these senators crowding around the microphone taking credit for every dirty deed Bush and Cheney wanted. Its time the Democratic party reminds them of this!

[m0nkeyneck]

1. so stupid they...

place rulers beside their beds to see how long they slept

[wtbymark]

2. "Are people in this country stupid or what?"................

Bingo! dingdingdingding

well, most of them anyways

Welcome to DU Butterfly! :hi:

[EuroObserver]

4. There has been a deliberate program for dumbing-down

the people of the USA. UK too. Via buying up the media and underfunding educaton. And controlling both. Ignorance is Strength!

[melody]

6. no, they aren't stupid

Some are ignorant - we have a big country and a woefully badly funded educational system. But Americans are no more stupid in general than any other nationality.

[butterfly77]

8. Thank you!

[Tace]

3. So Stupid They...

don't want to know the truth!

[IChing]

10. They can't handle the truth

it would upset them too much and the economy

[yellowcanine]

5. Yes.

[Wildewolfe]

7. No, they aren't stupid...

... and we shouldn't call them stupid either.

These are people who actually work for a living and come home to dead ass tired from two jobs to listen to the news.

These are people who believe in God and trust him with their lives and believe in their hearts what the preacher tells em on sunday. They have an innate trust in their heart, and when clinton lied about a blow job, it caused them to look elsewhere (hey, I think Clinton was great, but it only takes one slip to lose the peoples trust).

These are people who when they do get to hear something on bush, they hear tax cuts and think he means them and not his uber rich corporate pals.

These are people who are just now starting to wake up. They are slow to anger and relentless once they feel betrayed or lied to. These are the people, we here are calling Stupid, and they are the key to regaining a sane government.

The repubs played on their emotions and managed to get themselves in power in the 90s... the backlash of the republican betrayals when they all wake up should be a sight to see.

But stupid?... no...

[butterfly77]

11. Do these people live in the real world

I am quite for sure they see more homeless, higher prices for gas food and other things more for medical and other things. Do they sleep all of the time if not stupid maybe blind to the facts or just don't give a damn, and are living in their own little world.

[Booster]

9. Most (not all) of the Dems in Washington did the same thing, so

we should throw out the Dems who went blindly along with Bush also.

[butterfly77]

12. Agreed ...

and any undercover dems like Lieberman

[Richard D]

13. Not "or what"

[On the Road]

14. "The Man in the Street,

Draggin' his feet
Don't wanna hear the bad news
Imagine your face
There in his place
Standing inside his brown shoes
You do his nine to five
Drag yourself home half alive
And there on the screen
A man with a dream

http://www.lyricz.net/S/Steely+Dan/68116

Noam Chomsky explains better than anyone how political support is manufactured by tailoring the information and the range of options. I know the feeling because I was that way in college. If you come from a Republican or apolitical background, it can take a major effort for that sea change to happen.

Donald Fagan could not possibly have written that song about GWB, since it was penned in the seventies, but certain parts fit very nicely:

A world become one --
Salads and sun --
Only a fool would say that
A boy with a plan
A natural man
Wearing a white stetson hat
Unhand that gun begone
There's no one to fire upon
If he's holding it high
He's telling a lie

I heard it was you
Talkin' 'bout a world
Where all is free
It just couldn't be
And only a fool would say that...":