Welcome to the land of idiots. Here in Stupid we have a general lack of intellectual curiosity. All our information needs are met with convenient sound-bites and bumpersticker slogans. Our new national motto should be "If you can't say it in 10 words of less...."
If you don't get that joke, I understand, you are a citizen of our Great Republic of Stupid. Discussion is carried out in Tweets and text messages rather than conversation. Listening is a lost art, unless it's the latest pop song.
The latest polling proves my point with this lovely fact. One in five Americans believe President Obama is a Muslim. That's an astounding 20% who apparently either have an inherent distrust of facts or listen to nothing but talk radio. The even more disturbing result of that poll was this little slice of stupidity: an amazing 30% of Americans say followers of Islam should be barred from running for president or serving on the US Supreme Court.
So what happened to civics classes in schools? When did we start teaching our population that religious minorities are not allowed to run for public office? I know that home schooling is not solely to blame. Much of this crap comes from the bigotry of preachers and pundits who have successfully framed America as a "Christian Nation". That would come as a big shock to our Founding Fathers, but heck why look up that info when you can just tweet to your pals that the "durned Muslims are trying to take over the country".
OMFG! wht 2 do?
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YOU ARE SO RIGHT. NO ONE CAN BE MORE STUPID THAN AMERICANS. It's downright embarrassing. Thomas Geoghegan recently wrote a book titled "Were you born on the wrong continent?" The answer for me is most certainly yes. I wish I had moved to France years ago. This latest Mosque hysteria is just another reminder that I should have. But you didn't hear it from me. :)
YOU ARE SO RIGHT. NO ONE CAN BE MORE STUPID THAN AMERICANS. It's downright embarrassing. Thomas Geoghegan recently wrote a book titled "Were you born on the wrong continent?" The answer for me is most certainly yes. I wish I had moved to France years ago. This latest Mosque hysteria is just another reminder that I should have. But you didn't hear it from me. :)
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