Here's some profound wisdom from my favorite "Constitutional Fundamentalist"

[90-percent]

Been a Zappa fan since the OCTOBER 16, 1971 Stony Brook late show, with the Flo and Eddie Mothers line up.

interview is probably mid-80's High Times magazine?



HT: How do you inspire people to get aware, to read the Constitution, to get involved?

FZ: That's a tough question. You have a right to be literate. The school system that is costing so much is not delivering the goods. I think one of the reasons it doesn't deliver the goods is that it's ideologically more appealing to the right-wing elements in this country to create a nation of stupid people who are dumb enough to swallow their rhetoric so those right-wing elements can run an election campaign which is not based on facts and figures, but on bunting and sound bites that don't really tell you anything. You need a docile, stupid electorate in order for a person to be elected. And how do you keep them that way? You starve the educational system so that it doesn't really work. You control the content of the school books which are used in the educational system. You rewrite history to suit your ideology.


-90% Jimmy

[poboy2]

1. Not to take away, but to echo...George Carlin clip-

[90-percent]

3. "and now they're coming for your SOCIAL SECURITY"

"and they'll get it, too."

Thanks for the most concise, tight, bulletproof classic commentary from the great George Carlin. American should be strapped in with their eyelids taped open and be forced to watch this for ten straight hours. Or at least reposting on their social media pages.

-90% Jimmy

[poboy2]

4. I think it is just as you say as well! Love it. LOVE IT.

Tight, passionate, and to the point!

And the SS bit was before the latest assault. In death, the man speaks truth.

And this Zappa quote about democracy goes into this as well:

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”


― Frank Zappa

[Cosmocat]

2. Except

by and large it isn't the younger people who make shit decisions in the voting booths vs older people ...

Yes, they attack education for a lot of reasons, not the least of which they are just raging jackasses.

But, "education" isn't the problem.

There just is some weakness that allows people to get sucked into a mindset of being a victim and having their biases and fears stoked.

There was a meme floating around the last few weeks that supposedly was a quote from George Washington about people need guns to protect themselves from government. I, in a noncombative manner, refuted this meme, with links to what he actually said/wrote to a half dozen people - all 30+ years old.

They all dismissed my efforts, half to say that the actual quotes were fake, the other half to say that even though he MIGHT not have said it, it is the truth and needs to be said.

THAT is the problem, the WILLING rejection of facts, reality, common sense, decency by people who choose to live by their lesser instincts/qualities.