The Depth of Stupidity

[marano35]

Today 02-20-06, people that still have any respect or support for George W. Bush or Dick Cheney or any one else in the current administration in my opinion need to wear a football helmet to ride the short bus to school. I can not imagine how anyone can call themselves intelligent and at the same time support these idiots.

[laruemtt]

1. you don't have to waste your tme

trying to imagine - they are not intelligent. they are braindead or brainwashed - one or the other - there are no other options.

welcome to DU, marano35! :hi:

[lostnfound]

2. The power of a cult, isn't it? People deluded themselves for Jim Jones...

and other suicide cults. Other people allowed themselves to be deluded into becoming kamikaze pilots. It's not much different, except this time they are taking the whole country (and quite possibly the whole planet) with them.

PS Welcome to DU!

[JohnyCanuck]

8. Exactly

From The Despoiling of America by Katherine Yurica:

Indeed, Jim Jones’ surreal power over his congregants leaps out from the grave even today. If a man desired to change the laws in America—to undo Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal for instance, and allow corporations the unbridled freedom they enjoyed prior to the Great Depression (which included the freedom to defraud, pillage, and to destroy the land with impunity on the way to gathering great fortunes), what better way to proceed than to cloak the corruption within a religion? If a few men wanted to establish an American empire and control the entire world, what better vehicle to carry them to their goal than to place their agenda within the context of a religion? Jim Jones proved religious people would support even immoral political deeds if their leaders found a way to frame those deeds as “God’s Will.” The idea was brilliant. Its framers knew they could glorify greed, hate, nationalism and even a Christian empire with ease.<21>

The religion the canny thinkers founded follows the reverse of communism and secular humanism, it poured political and economic ideology into a religion and that combustible mixture produced “Dominionism,” a new political faith that had the additional advantage of insulating the cult from attacks on its political agenda by giving its practitioners the covering to simply cry out, “You’re attacking me for my religious beliefs and that’s religious persecution!”<22>

But how could a leader get away with a religious fraud that barely hides its destructive and false intent?

Jim Jones’s history holds the answer. He not only proved the obvious fact that people are blinded by their religious beliefs and will only impute goodness, mercy, and religious motivations to their leader, but Jim Jones proved the efficacy of the basic teaching of Machiavelli: a leader must only appear to have the qualities of goodness—he need not actually possess those attributes.

http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm

[mwb970]

3. It's a cult.

Remember the folks that committed group suicide so they could meet up with a UFO that was behind the Hale-Bopp comet? We normal people have little understanding of the cult mentality and are often surprised at how far outside of reality these groups can stray.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Two quotes from Einstein re stupidity:

1. The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

2. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

[marano35]

5. He was a smart man

I wonder if we could qualify for minority status.

[LisaLynne]

6. They certainly can't think critically enough to ...

get out of the way of that catapulted propaganda that BushCo keeps launching our way. It's very frustrating, but they do have these little defense mechanisms in their minds that allow them to continue to ignore the fact that not only does the Emperor have no clothes, he's also a friggin' idiot.

Welcome to DU, BTW! :hi:

[bryant69]

7. Yes. One thing to remember as we talk to them

is how stupid they are. That always helps in arguments and discussions.

Bryant
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[Lerkfish]

9. hey, even fundamentally mentally challeged people know when they're

being mistreated.

the sheeple WILLINGLY ask to be lied to and manipulated. It is not a mental deficiency, but it is insane.