"Majority rule don’t work in mental institutions"

[Minstrel Boy]

Democracy isn't for the lazy. It makes demands. Above all else, it requires that a citizenry be capable of making informed decisions. Failing this, democracy is a sham. Ignorance trumps choice.

But today's America is not merely uninformed; it's misinformed. And purposefully so, by a narcotizing corporate media and the unchallenged shrill voices of the right. Since the end of the Fairness Doctrine it's been 20+ years of dumbing-down, far-right indoctrination.

America's fallen into madness because it's in the grip of a mind control cult. It needs deprogramming before it does further harm to itself or others.


NOFX - The Idiots Are Taking Over

It’s not the right time to be sober
Now the idiots have taken over
Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?

Mensa membership exceeding
Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding
Watson, it’s really elementary
The industrial revolution
Has flipped the bitch on evolution
The benevolent and wise are being cornered, ostracized, what a bummer
The world keeps getting dumber
Insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason

Darwin’s rollin over in his coffin
The fittest are surviving much less often
Now everything seems to be reversing, and it’s worsening
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
Now angry mob mentality’s no longer the exception, it’s the rule
And I’m startin to feel a lot like charlton heston
Stranded on a primate planet
Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
With generals and the armies that obeyed them
Followers following fables
Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard

There’s no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated
Political scientists think the same one vote that some monkeys are inbred
Majority rule, don’t work in mental institutions
Sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions

What are we left with?
A nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists
Who feel it’s their duty to populate the homeland
Pass on traditions
How to get ahead religions
And prosperity be a symbol to culture

The idiots are takin over

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[zbdent]

1. Y'know, for a number of years, talkshow host Triv in Cleveland used

the speech by Michael Douglas from "The American President" on his radio show.

You know, the one where: "America isn't easy. ... Defending freedom of speech isn't just about someone you agree with. Freedom of speech is defending the right of someone to say things that make your blood boil in anger." Something to that effect.

Sometime after W was put on the auction block for running for President, Triv lost that clip.

Of course, now, he has no problem with shouting you down and hanging up on you if you dare question any aspect of W.

Triv is on a Clear Channel station in Cleveland.

[Az]

2. The tarring of Darwin

It astounds me how Darwin gets dragged out and tarred on a frequent basis. For the record, Social Darwinism is not a creation of Darwin. It does not properly describe the actions within human society. It is a better description of what transpires in Corporate society and on Survivor. It is what you get when you remove millions of years of evolution that lead to the creation of social creatures with a proclivity to help each other in order for the group to survive.

Social Darwinisim is the thing we should eschew in society. It is a great black hole into which our humanity may plummet. But we have handed our lives over to entities driven by this great sucking leach. Corporations have no insentive to preserve us or any other thing. In the end they only serve themselves. This is not evolution. It is devolution. We have placed a long term destructive system in charge of the planet. And we only have ourselves to blame if no one stands up and stops it.

[prodigal_green]

3. Funny how those who espouse Social Darwinism

Are the same ones that want to do away with biological Darwinism in schools.

I agree--Darwin NEVER said any of these things about society. Even his evolutionary theory was misunderstood. The eugenics movement, which started in the USA by the way, was the bedrock of Nazi "race purity." What is ironic is that Darwin would've said that gene mixing is more beneficial than inbreeding...Sigh, the great ones are always misunderstood.