Ah, I see the need to fix an incorrect impression that I have left, i.e. that only idiots vote Republican. I suppose that is possible, but I don't believe it. I confess that many of the rabid Republicans that I know do a very good idiot impression, but in all fairness, so do many of my Democrat demagogue acquaintances. I strongly suspect that stupidity is fairly evenly distributed throughout the two-party system.
I will agree with a previous comment on this thread -- this commentary does a good job of covering the subject of stupidity in American politics: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/28/us-education-election-obama-bush-mccain --Doug On a much lighter note -- if anybody out there is looking for a fun way to spend Halloween this evening, might I recommend the Tin Star Saloon: http://tinstarmusic.blogspot.com/ --Doug On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm very willing to accept your premise that people are willful, stupid, > ignorant, and all the rest. > > The question is: why does that imply a particular voting pattern? Why do > idiots vote republican? Have republicans mastered some weird sort of > hypnotism that gathers in the ignorant? > > I'd presume some sort of Gaussian curve for idiots, wouldn't you? Why are > they skewed one way or the other? Why aren't they stupid enough to vote for > Obama? > > -- Owen > > > On Oct 31, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > >> Owen, >> >> I'm guessing (purely guessing; I could be completely wrong) that you have >> not ever had a job that brought you squarely into daily contact with >> "average" people. I suggest this, because if you had, you most assuredly >> would not be asking (paraphrasing now) >> >> "Why are people so willing to be completely fucking ignorant?" >> >> The answer, IMNSHO is: the human population is, in the aggregate, on the >> average, with some exceptions, pretty happy being completely fucking >> ignorant. >> >> Another way of asking your question would be: "Why are people the way they >> are?" The answer of course, is: "Because that's the way they are." >> >> Of course now, I find myself wondering why you are wondering why people >> are >> the way they are... >> >> I mean, isn't it obvious? >> >> --Doug >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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