How dumb can a nation get and still survive? By Eugene Robinson

[sinkingfeeling]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/07/reconciliation-vaccines-election-america-dumb/

How did we become, in such alarming measure, so dumb? Why is the news dominated by ridiculous controversies that should not be controversial at all? When did so many of our fellow citizens become full-blown nihilists who deny even the concept of objective reality? And how must this look to the rest of the world?

Covid-19 is a bipartisan killer. In the tribal-political sense, the safe and effective vaccines are a bipartisan miracle, developed under the Republican Trump administration and largely distributed under the Democratic Biden administration. People in most of the rest of the world realize, however, that vaccination is not political at all; it is a matter of life and death, and also a matter of how soon — if ever — we get to resume our normal lives.

Why would people not protect their own health and save their own lives? How is this anything but just plain stupid?

And then, of course, there’s the whole “stolen election” farce, which led to the tragedy of Jan. 6. Every recount, every court case, every verifiable fact proves that Joe Biden fairly defeated Donald Trump. Yet a sizeable portion of the American electorate either can’t do basic arithmetic or doesn’t believe that one plus one always equals two.

How dumb can a nation get and still survive? Idiotically, we seem determined to find out.

[lagomorph777]

1. I think we've just crossed the threshold.

Apparently we are about to learn that the Select Committee is caving. That's the end. We can't survive that.

[KS Toronado]

5. Select Committee will not cave....

But they do seem to be taking their sweet time in getting all their ducks in a row.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

6. the answer to defying/ignoring subpoenas is to subpoena TFG.

When he defies it, lock him up.

[E. Normus]

2. seems to me

that the stupidity we witness daily, appears to have no boundaries.

[KS Toronado]

3. reQublicOns don't care how the rest of the world views this country

All they care about is political power.

[3catwoman3]

4. Good damn question. Some people are so stubbornly and...

…willfully uninformed that if breathing required decision making, they would die before they could decide whether to breathe in first or out first.

[hibbing]

7. They are smart, they are doing their own research! n/t

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. Good editorial

[LymphocyteLover]

9. we're on the highway to Idiocracy, watching FoxNews/NewsMax/OANN all the way

[Uncle Joe]

10. I believe the descent begins with pride

Thanks for the thread sinkingfeeling.