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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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To: Repeal The 17th

It is EVIL people that run America and stupid people that try to stop them.


21 posted on 12/26/2022 4:39:37 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: Fiji Hill; All
Thank you for referencing that video Fiji Hill. Please note that the rest of this post is a different perspective of the problem pointed out by Mr. Sowell.

"Why Did We Let Stupid People Run America?"


As a side note to this thread, please consider the following.

The drafters of the Constitution never gave ordinary ciizens the express constitutional power to vote for federal senators or POTUS, only the power to vote for members of the House of Representatives. This is mainly because it was thought that allowing ordinary citizens to vote for representives was a good way to limit federal taxes and spending.

The only reason that we now vote for senators and POTUS against the intentions of constitutional drafters is this imo. The enemies of the constitutional republic are using mob rule to elect crooks to federal and state governments to slowly destroy the republic with massive unaccountable spending, evidenced by Pelosi's unconstitutional omnibus bill.


22 posted on 12/26/2022 4:42:08 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Repeal The 17th; All

Yup. Half the voters in this country are so stupid, they don’t even know how many stars are on our Flag and haven’t a clue as to their meaning. And they vote?! (for more free chit).


23 posted on 12/26/2022 4:42:33 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Cobra64

And they want us to send all our money to a place they can’t even find on a map.


24 posted on 12/26/2022 4:43:13 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Fiji Hill

Because voters can be stupider than the stupid people running America.


25 posted on 12/26/2022 4:46:57 PM PST by ScottinVA
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To: Fiji Hill

Because we have too many stupid voters!!! 🙄


26 posted on 12/26/2022 4:47:23 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Fiji Hill

One reason the electorate has been so thoroughly brainwashed by the fake news media and social media. The opposition is helpless with the exception of Trump. Not optimistic that we can turn it around in the future.


27 posted on 12/26/2022 4:48:39 PM PST by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Especially the fake voters.


28 posted on 12/26/2022 4:51:26 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: kenmcg

There is no opposition. Except for Trump and a few non-Uniparty politicians that is.


29 posted on 12/26/2022 4:52:43 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Fiji Hill
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.

Until everyone one realizes that they are not stupid they will continue to hold power. What they are doing is intentional and planned. Rush Limbaugh knew it a long time ago when he said that he hoped Obama would fail.

30 posted on 12/26/2022 4:53:22 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Fiji Hill

I take offense at the use of past tense.


31 posted on 12/26/2022 4:53:50 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Repeal The 17th

We let stupid people run the country because smart people are too busy doing important things to get involved....like preparing for the coming societal collapse thanks to stupid people.


32 posted on 12/26/2022 4:54:48 PM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: Fiji Hill

Who’s this “WE”??


33 posted on 12/26/2022 4:59:36 PM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux (Let There Be [God's] Light!))
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To: Fiji Hill
Why? Apathy.

Typically, 60% of registered voters do not vote. So of the 40% who do, it only takes a “majority” of 21% to put some dumbsh^t lefty in office or on a judicial bench.

34 posted on 12/26/2022 5:00:45 PM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: Fiji Hill

“Why Did We Let Stupid People Run America?”

We didn’t...democrats did.


35 posted on 12/26/2022 5:02:37 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Fiji Hill

Stupid isn’t the biggest problem. Criminally corrupt and tyrannical are the biggest problems. You can survive stupid. There’s no surviving what we have.


36 posted on 12/26/2022 5:04:25 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: Fiji Hill

“As I look around us there’s such strange things
There’s muggers and there’s jugglers and we are led by clowns
If an answer ever found us, would we change things?
Or are we just a people rotten ready for the ground”

— Harry Chapin


37 posted on 12/26/2022 5:08:23 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Fiji Hill

Kakistocracy.

Rule by our inferiors.


38 posted on 12/26/2022 5:09:44 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Fiji Hill

i like sowell

but they are not stupid

they are evil


39 posted on 12/26/2022 5:10:39 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Fiji Hill

Stupid voters elect stupid politicians. Stupid is as stupid does.


40 posted on 12/26/2022 5:12:54 PM PST by mulligan (an En bbnnEeThe to)
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