Building a Nation of Know-Nothings

[elleng]

Having shed much of his dignity, core convictions and reputation for straight talk, Senator John McCain won his primary on Tuesday against the flat-earth wing of his party. Now McCain can go search for his lost character, which was last on display late in his 2008 campaign for president. . .


A growing segment of the party poised to take control of Congress has bought into denial of the basic truths of Barack Obama’s life. What’s more, this astonishing level of willful ignorance has come about largely by design, and has been aided by a press afraid to call out the primary architects of the lies.

The Democrats may deserve to lose in November. They have been terrible at trying to explain who they stand for and the larger goal of their governance. But if they lose, it should be because their policies are unpopular or ill-conceived — not because millions of people believe a lie.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/building-a-nation-of-know-nothings/

[liberal N proud]

1. Here is more proof of the ignorance in America

America the Ignorant
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9022827

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Sad and scary vision of what is coming...and I do not think McCain will ever find

what little, if any, may be left of his dignity and "character".

[Blue_Tires]

3. That's what they want...

History has countless examples of how stupidly easy it is to control a populace which is kept ignorant and fed half-truths...

Historians in the future will question for generations how we had so many destructive and willfully ignorant people in our so-called "Information Age"

I've got to move someplace where people are actually sane...