I can't be sure, of course, but I suspect that Jonty30 is a well-meaning "holy fool."
Judging from his/her posts, he/she is inclined to ask superficially foolish-sounding questions about matters of which he/she has only a passing familiarity. To the many people here at Free Republic who have a much more in-depth understanding of the given subject matter, these questions will undoubtedly sound naïve and perhaps even malicious.
I've often caught myself falling into the trap of assuming that a random poster must be trolling us, since a few minutes of searching the Internet would have sufficed to resolve the given question, or at least enabled them to better formulate the question, before approaching us.
The situation would be comparable to my posting a question about NASCAR (about which I know nothing). "Why aren't NASCAR vehicles all electric - or at least equipped with hybrid engines?" I might ask, or "How would the 1966 Batman t.v. series Batmobile fare in a modern-day NASCAR race? Would its atomic batteries give it an advantage?"
However, when it comes to NASCAR, I'm smart enough to know how ignorant I am and hence how dumb such questions would probably seem to the many NASCAR fans here on Free Republic who eat, breathe, and live NASCAR.
(My pet-peeves are the questions containing implicit untruths: "Since the Nazis bombed Pearl Harbor in December of 1938, why didn't they continue on to San Francisco and bomb it, too?)
I suppose that it thus might have something to do with the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
SIDE REMARK: I find it fascinating that "stupid" and "badly formulated" questions often elicit the longest threads here at Free Republic. I suspect it's because nothing excites a FReeper more than the opportunity to lecture a "dumb-dumb."
Regards,
You sound like the kind of person who won’t vote for a certain Republican candidate, because you want to punish the party for not keeping the ideals you want kept and it resulted in the rise of Obama and the win of Joe Bidon and the strengthening of the Deep State. I think those people are the fools, because they are the ones that have doomed America and sold their children into eventual slavery over their pride.
You call me a fool, for making a suggestion of preparing for a socialist America when liberals try to destroy information that can be used to rebuild America, if we are able to. You could be right, doing nothing and watching your children suffer on a historical level could be the wisest thing of all. (sarc)
I personally think that those who thought that my suggestion was stupid are idiots and have no problem saying so.
To them, the murder of 250 million in the 20th century, the aborting of 2 billion children, the majority of major wars started and the enslavement of over a billion people were aberrations of liberalism and not feature.s
I suspect the real reason that some here are ridiculing my suggestion is because they are really liberals who desire socialism and want to put people back to sleep so it can happen as peacefully as possible.
In my opinion, liberals serve Satan willingly, because what they desire was dedicated to Satan by Karl Marx.