Bill Maher Agrees with Gruber: Yes, the American People Are Stupid

[ErikJ]

His best point is at 2:05 where he talks about what Republicans think of Obamacare.

Papantonio mentioned this one today: Texas Tech Students Don't Know Who Won The Civil War

[rep the dems]

1. It was only a matter of time before someone came out and said it

And I'm not surprised it was Bill. Sadly, he's exactly right.

[YOHABLO]

11. I've been saying it for years .. but then I am nobody. I guess you have to have a show on cable.

And of course he's right. Americans are so disengaged with how our government works for THEM. All they are told is how ''terrible" government is and how we need to do away with it altogether. Yeah, let's see how Anarchy works.

[Fuddnik]

2. The American electorate has the attention span of a gnat.

And the intelligence to match.

[world wide wally]

3. We can feel self-righteously offended when someone says that, but...

Can anyone come up with a good argument against it?

[yallerdawg]

4. "Nobody ever went broke...

underestimating the intelligence of the American public." - H. L. Mencken

Maher has been lamenting the stupidity of the American people at least since "we" elected Bush 2.0.

[Perseus]

6. Unfortunately, sadly, most of the World also thinks that way.

The problem is that Americans do not read foreign press so they don't realize waht the World thinks of us. Not sure if anyone remembers when Bush 2. was "elected" for the 2nd term, the front page of the British paper "Slate", and not sure if "The Daily Mirror" as well...anyway here is the link:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/international_papers/2004/11/brits_to_america_youre_idiots.html

And here is the headline:

Brits to America: You're Idiots!
Well, 51 percent of you, anyway.

[yallerdawg]

12. Well, we don't really care what the rest of the world thinks about us!

We'll just go over there and kick their asses!

[stillwaiting]

5. Lots of willful ignorance and lots of flat out stupidity in the U.S.A.

The willfully ignorant offend me more than the stupid.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

7. To quote George Carlin

Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are stupider than that.

[De Leonist]

8. Are Americans uninformed ?

Yes, but not because we want to be but because the average Americans is increasingly in constant survival mode. Quite frankly being something like politically aware or scientifically literate are things that most Americans just don't have fucking time or energy for between bills, family and work plus being overworked and consistently underpaid and often underemployed.

Also, fuck the unemployment rate. It would be better if we could talk about the underemployment rate as well as the unemployment rate.

This is why Democrats as a party need to start speaking the language of class warfare again.

[rhett o rick]

10. Misinformed, but willfully misinformed. nm

[cantbeserious]

19. The Students Seem To Have Time For Trivial Pursuit - But Not Time For Important Facts

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[passiveporcupine]

9. It's not that people are stupid

It's because they are not involved so they don't pay attention.

How do we get more people to become educated and involved in the political process?

[appalachiablue]

13. Americans are 'stupid' by design. 30 years of commericalism puts celebrities & sitcom media junk

everywhere for people to consume, in contrast to knowledge of government, history and civics which are usually taught in schools. Only 9 states now require civics classes to graduate. And it's reflected in student answers by questioners like here.

[paleotn]

14. One more sign...

...that our country is rotting from within. Sorry folks, but when a representative democracy is full of lazy, overindulged, thoughtless boobs, who's only care is what's on TeeVee tonight, it ceases to function. Thus, Ted Cruz, Steve King and Louis Gohmert can get elected to anything more significant than their local homeowners association and Congress in general can't agree on the color of shit. We're fat, lazy and happy, resting on 200+ years of other people's hard work and sacrifice. We'll see what the Chinese have to say about that in the coming decades.

http://www.thenation.com/article/156851/decline-and-fall-american-empire#

[appalachiablue]

15. Thanks for the article. Agree we're fat & lazy, dunno about happy though. Too many

clueless or indifferent unfortunately.

[Enrique]

16. video is removed

but I see both Bill Maher and Jon Gruber as arrogant in the same way. I don't relate to either one of them, and I don't see either one as liberals, and i think it is a huge mistake for liberals to have anything to do with these types.

[cpwm17]

17. Yes, calling most Americans 'stupid' is stupid.

Bill Maher is a bigot. This is more proof.

I wouldn't call a Netanyahu-loving anti-vaxxer exactly a genius.

[demwing]

18. Updated Link!

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/maher-agrees-with-gruber-yes-the-american-people-are-stupid/