Anyone still think that Idiocracy is fiction?

[hobbit709]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/01/17/over-80-percent-of-americans-support-mandatory-labels-on-foods-containing-dna/

A recent survey by the Oklahoma State University Department of Agricultural Economics finds that over 80 percent of Americans support “mandatory labels on foods containing DNA,” about the same number as support mandatory labeling of GMO foods “produced with genetic engineering.” Oklahoma State economist Jayson Lusk has some additional details on the survey. If the government does impose mandatory labeling on foods containing DNA, perhaps the label might look something like this:

WARNING: This product contains deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The Surgeon General has determined that DNA is linked to a variety of diseases in both animals and humans. In some configurations, it is a risk factor for cancer and heart disease. Pregnant women are at very high risk of passing on DNA to their children.

[Iliyah]

1. I've sometimes relate the GOP to the movie - Idiocracy

I rest my case.

[onecaliberal]

2. I never thought it was fiction.

It is much wider spread than most imagined.

[awoke_in_2003]

3. Yep

He got the timeline wrong. We will be there in 50

[awoke_in_2003]

4. Wait until they find out

about dihydrogen monoxide.

[Glassunion]

7. This is why I can't support big agriculture business.

They use millions of gallons of the stuff. They spread it all over every single crop they grow. Do you know how much of this stuff runs off and gets into our streams and groundwater? It's staggering. They way they use this stuff you'd think that they must assume it just magically falls from the sky.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. "Magically fall from the sky"

[Glassunion]

12. I just found out they put it in coffee too...

SHIT!

[awoke_in_2003]

14. They are trying to kill us

[Binkie The Clown]

5. Clearly the masses can't be trusted with democracy

[hobbit709]

6. Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man

How's that again? I missed something.
Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again, too. Who decides?

[First Speaker]

8. One of my favorite quotes...

...from one of my favorite books...I think Heinlein spread more of himself in that one than any other...

[LanternWaste]

10. The largest corporations making the largest contributions.

"Who decides?"

The largest corporations making the largest contributions.

[Bucky]

9. The old joke about Idiocracy becoming real is getting old. Under Trump, the country is becoming...

This is Cleveland

[cherokeeprogressive]

13. I do.