(January 4, 2012 at 3:25 pm)paintpooper Wrote: Can we ask the question why these people are so crazy?I have my theories but I don't honestly know.
In the case of the birthers, my best guess is good old fashioned American racism combined with being among the fringe of the right-wing politics somehow congealed into "this guy can't POSSIBLY be president. There MUST be some way to get him out of our white house."
(January 4, 2012 at 3:25 pm)paintpooper Wrote: Why south of the mason-dixon line?It's just my way of saying 'the bible belt" or "the deep south" or just "the south."
That's where you'll tend to find the highest concentration of racist, ignorant, group of conservative republican bible-thumpers.
In other words, the greatest concentration of embarrassments to the United States.
(January 4, 2012 at 3:25 pm)paintpooper Wrote: What policy make these people lack basic thinking skills.I blame the fundementalist religious elements combined with the republican wishful thinking of "give rich people everything and everyone will benefit somehow" mentality. The constant FOX News and christian propoganda and funding cuts to education doesn't help either.
(January 4, 2012 at 3:25 pm)paintpooper Wrote: That is the problem we need to fix, I find it hard to believe they are all that stupid, maybe mislead by someone or something. Ban Fox news from the south lol see what happens. You think all these crazies come up with this shit all themselves, nah its all calculation of stories and crazy shit that the media pushes out to the point it "seems" real, if Bill O reliliy talks about something IT must be real!!! Hahahaha. Media is fighting a war on our minds, seen any reality TV lately lol.
It would be disingenuous of me to say that they're ALL that stupid, but it tends to be the place where you'll find creationist science teachers every now and again as well as people like Orly Taitz. They're not in the majority, but they're more than loud enough and crazy enough to make everyone look bad.
Putting a ban on FOX News won't do anything - they're just preaching to the choir.... the 65+ year old angry racist white guy crowds that think free healthcare is fascism.
Putting more money into education would help enormously, but republians hate facts, education, and truth so it's an uphill battle.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
