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Why Did We Let Stupid People Run America?
Youtube ^ | December 24, 2022 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 12/26/2022 3:56:15 PM PST by Fiji Hill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf3sTY4zylA


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: academia; education; elites
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Five-minute video on how shallow and stupid elitists given power to implement their "woke" ideology are wrecking education and in so doing, ruining peoples' lives.
1 posted on 12/26/2022 3:56:15 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

Sowell is a national treasure.


2 posted on 12/26/2022 3:58:59 PM PST by sauropod (2000 miles - Proof that Chrissie Hynde can sing the phone book and it sounds fantastic.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Why Did We Let Stupid People Run America?
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Because the voters are stupid.


3 posted on 12/26/2022 4:02:46 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Because stupid people vote.


4 posted on 12/26/2022 4:03:14 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Repeal The 17th
Why Did We Let Stupid People Run America?

"We" didn't. The FBI insisted on it.

5 posted on 12/26/2022 4:03:57 PM PST by marktwain
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To: Fiji Hill

Because the FBI and the Mockingbird media collided with the Beltway bureaucrats to do so.


6 posted on 12/26/2022 4:04:07 PM PST by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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Not too many normal people would want to run for political office.
Also stupid people vote


7 posted on 12/26/2022 4:04:48 PM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: escapefromboston

We are pretty much at “Catch-22” now.

The fact someone even wants to run for office suggests they are crazy. So why vote for a crazy person?


8 posted on 12/26/2022 4:06:06 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Repeal The 17th
"Because the voters are stupid."

And biden is importing millions more future stupid voters.

To say we have a massive uphill battle, with both hand and legs tied behind our backs, would be to underestimate the situation by orders of magnitude.

9 posted on 12/26/2022 4:06:25 PM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: dfwgator

Not only do stupid people vote, but their votes count for more than the votes of intelligent people. Between mail-in balloting, ballot harvesting and lack of basic ballot integrity in the stupidest areas of our country, the deep state is free to gin up results as they see fit.


10 posted on 12/26/2022 4:09:24 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Fiji Hill

George Carlin, “Dem Elites continue to harm innocent Americans via their power and money.

Warning Carlin profanity is below:

Carlin”: It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.

You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks.

The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people — white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on —
They don’t give a ***k about you. They don’t care about you at all — at all — at all. And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on; the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their ********** everyday.

Because the owners of this country know the truth: it’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

― George Carlin////May 4, 2014

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/964648-but-there-s-a-reason-there-s-a-reason-there-s-a-reason

https://media.tenor.com/HhA-coxG7gAAAAAC/plan-planngood honest hard-working people continue — these are people of modest means — continue to elect these rich ************s who don’t give a ***k about them. They don’t give a ***k about you.
.gedif


11 posted on 12/26/2022 4:11:26 PM PST by Grampa Dave ((Truth is hate speech to those, who hate the truth!) (clintonh8r))
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To: Repeal The 17th

Because the voters are stupid.

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Voters are greedy. They have been taught that one should vote primarily in one’s self-interest. After all America is the country of the “individual”. People unfortunately learned a long time ago that they can vote to increase their income through various government programs, tax credits, and policies. We -here on FR like to repeat the phrase “We’re a Republic not a Democracy”, but virtually every law, Amendment, and Supreme Court decision in the last 100 years has broadened the franchise AND corresponding feeling of entitlement. What we are witnessing in slow motion is how representative government may eventually die. The Founding Fathers anticipated it, and some were openly worried about the citizenry’s ability to keep it.


12 posted on 12/26/2022 4:13:06 PM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Having 50% stupid voters . . . many which never should have been given the vote in the first place . . . the answer is really quite simple.


13 posted on 12/26/2022 4:13:17 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Fiji Hill

Years ago I noticed that after the American people fell in love with Presidents that seemed youthful — because of Kennedy — that in the general election, with the notable but understandable exception of LBJ who was Kennedy’s VP, the candidate with the poofiest hair won.

Naturally there were nuances such as W and Kerry both had poofy hair but Kerry’s face was visually longer so as a matter of perception W was poofier. Also it didn’t how poofy their hair was if the candidate was black or a woman.

So aside from the last guy that STOLE the election poofy wins for white men ... even if they are actually old dudes.

In Congress by contrast all that seems to matter is a letter by the name, even if they are proven backstabbing douchebags who think Reagan’s Rule is for losers and getting along with Democrats is how you show you are a “stateman” ... and of course douchbaggery only seems to increase with the number of terms for both parties.

So there you have it and I guess the point in all this is that idiots are running the show because many voters are idiots ... when the elections don’t get stolen by Democrats and then many voters are disenfranchised idiots.

Also: I’m glad I’m not a drinker because having posted this, if I were, I would be facing a serious hangover tomorrow.


14 posted on 12/26/2022 4:16:03 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne

Television forever ruined politics.


15 posted on 12/26/2022 4:17:18 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

so did the 19th amendment ...


16 posted on 12/26/2022 4:21:47 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: bankwalker

Yep....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dudHwko8wY8


17 posted on 12/26/2022 4:24:44 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Fiji Hill

Those “elitists” best enjoy themselves while they can, their eternities won’t be very pleasant or enjoyable at all.


18 posted on 12/26/2022 4:32:58 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: dfwgator

“I promise you dis, dat and the other thing!” was around before TV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vukIrceLvg


19 posted on 12/26/2022 4:34:33 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Fiji Hill

Because “we” got stupid first. And with millions upon millions of stupider people coming here and having kids...we have been stupid-ed out of our own country.


20 posted on 12/26/2022 4:34:49 PM PST by Captainpaintball
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