Terminally Dumb People

[Joanne98]

For OpEdNews: William Blum - Writer

Terminally-dumb people have always been with us of, course. It can't be that we've suddenly gone stupid.
If you shake your head and roll your eyes at the nonsense coming out of the Tea Party followers of Sarah "Africa is a country" Palin and other intellectual giants like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh " If you have thoughts of moving abroad after the latest silly lies and fantasies like "Obama the Marxist" and "Obama the antichrist" " If you share Noam Chomsky's feeling: "I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime" " keep in mind that the right wing has long been at least as stupid and as mean-spirited. Consider some of the behavior of the same types for half a century during the Cold War with its beloved -- albeit imaginary -- "International Communist Conspiracy".

* 1948: The Pittsburgh Press published the names, addresses, and places of employment of about 1,000 citizens who had signed presidential-nominating petitions for former Vice President Henry Wallace, running under the Progressive Party. This, and a number of other lists of "communists", published in the mainstream media, resulted in people losing their jobs, being expelled from unions, having their children abused, being denied state welfare benefits, and suffering various other punishments.

Around 1950: The House Committee on Un-American Activities published a pamphlet, 100 Things You Should Know About Communism in the U.S.A. This included information about what a communist takeover of the United States would mean:

Q: What would happen to my insurance?
A: It would go to the Communists.
Q: Would communism give me something better than I have now?
A: Not unless you are in a penitentiary serving a life sentence at hard labor.

* 1950s: Mrs. Ada White, member of the Indiana State Textbook Commission, believed that Robin Hood was a Communist and urged that books that told the Robin Hood story be banned from Indiana schools.

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[izquierdista]

1. Not terminal enough

In the remote past, say 40,000 or 50,000 years ago, the stupid were weeded out faster, allowing mankind to progress. Unfortunately, we seem to be stuck in one of those punctuated equilibrium points, and some new evolutionary pressure will be needed to weed the idiot genes out the current pool. Maybe it will be related to the oil leak in the Gulf or global warming. I can see the "drill, baby, drill" and global warming deniers getting themselves into a situation where they snuff out their own genes. Oh, they may take a lot of other human genes with them, but the smart ones who do pass on their genes, they will (1) be smarter and more adaptable to the new environment and (2) will have learned to avoid teabaggers and cretins.

[Scuba]

2. And the new boogie man is....

....Radical Islam? Nope.

Barak Hussein Obama? Nope.

I vote for Jim DeMint.