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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
well do you think the general public has decreased in IQ, or do you think the TP encourages people who were once smart enough to realize they're stupid and would shut up, to start speaking up?
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I told you what I thought. I think idiots are emboldened and encouraged by idiot candidates and the Becks/Limbaughs/O'Reillys of the world. I think the fact that there are candidates who are succeeding
because they are actively stupid (or are pretending to be dumber than they are) is amazing. I think Rove and Bush opened up a can of worms by manipulating the morons in their base to vote. Now, these morons realize they have power and want to see
themselves (as opposed to intelligent candidates representing their interests) in office.
In short, I don't think the general public's collective IQ has decreased. I think the dumbest people in the Republican party have broken out on their own as Tea Partiers.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
the John Wayne clip I posted, a woman who I thought was pretty smart posted that as if it was something wise to share. lots of other are doing similar posts on their public facebooks. it shocks me.
most of the people i'm "friends" with from my high school post "I love Jesus" shit.
now I"m from a backward lower class town, so maybe I just know a higher percentage of the truly nuts, but i always thought I had filtered that out.
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Okay. Not sure if you are telling me this because you think your HS classmates represent what is happening out there (i.e., otherwise reasonably intelligent people posting ridiculous garbage for some reason other than their reduced brain capacity) or if you just think it's weird.
Either way, people who seemed smart in HS don't necessarily continue to grow intellectually past where they were in HS. I see it all the time. In fact, some of them go the opposite way once they aren't forced to learn things. They get stuck in an unstimulating job, shelter themselves from exposure to things not related to their immediate tastes and are influenced by talk radio and the community they live in which is now empty of the people who have moved on to bigger and better things.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
anyhoo, I"m shocked and confused about some of the people who buy into whatever the TP message is. i thought that had some value in the discussion of "whose party has ore stupid voters", because the fact that perhaps some of the people aren't stupid, might impact the question.
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Honestly, you post a lot of minimal stuff that you think is just packed with meaning. But we're not in your brain and often, the steps you are taking internally to get to whatever point you think you're making are not apparent to us on the board. Think about it.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
in sum, I do feel that it added at least the value of the average PB post.
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Can't argue with that.
TM
