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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: Fiji Hill
To get elected, you need to have views that don't offend the voters or the donors. A good way to do that is never to think, but just say what voters want to hear and do what donor want done.

Also, a college degree, an elite university degree, or a graduate degree don't mean what they once did. Earlier, they might have had little to do with real world politics, but they meant that you at least knew something. Now it seems like degrees just mean that you can parrot the fashionable opinions of the day.

41 posted on 12/26/2022 5:19:28 PM PST by x
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To: x
To get elected, you need to have views that don't offend the voters or the donors.

Voters want pork and entitlements. Ideology doesn't matter.

42 posted on 12/26/2022 5:21:53 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

“Because stupid people vote”

Smart enough to know from whom their free $hit will come from.


43 posted on 12/26/2022 5:29:44 PM PST by DAC21
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To: Fiji Hill

Why do we let stupid people without skin in the game, vote?


44 posted on 12/26/2022 5:32:02 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: sauropod

Amen!

He is one of the last real gems of leadership and patriots we have left.


45 posted on 12/26/2022 5:40:13 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I know. I fear his passing.


46 posted on 12/26/2022 5:42:49 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

Because even stupider people believe them.

God Bless Thomas Sowell. I have been playing his audio books in my shop and sometimes I just have to stop what I am doing and replay a section 5 or 10 times to absorb his brilliance. One of my favorites is an interview where their host asks about Obamacare.
Q”Well what do you replace it (obamacare) with”

TS: “That’s like asking a doctor what do you replace cancer with after it has been removed from your body.”

BAM.


47 posted on 12/26/2022 5:45:22 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Fiji Hill

When stupid people vote and send their offspring to stupid-enhancement schools, the outcome is a civilization of stupid & servile serfs...

Welcome to America...


48 posted on 12/26/2022 5:48:42 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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We started paying them to breed almost 60 years ago ...


49 posted on 12/26/2022 5:49:55 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Fiji Hill

I don’t think they’re stupid. They’re evil.


50 posted on 12/26/2022 5:57:21 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: Fiji Hill

Don’t confuse Stupid with ethically corrupt, morally bankrupt and just plain EVIL with nothing but contempt in their hearts for their fellow man.


51 posted on 12/26/2022 6:15:52 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: DennisR
"Because we have too many stupid voters!!!"
Because stupid people are easily controlled by very smart evil people who need a front to hide behind.
52 posted on 12/26/2022 6:27:23 PM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Fiji Hill
We have stupid people running things because smart people have created enough money out of thin air to buy their dumbass lackkeys butts into the seats of power.

    “Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws.”

- Mayer Amschel Rothschild

53 posted on 12/26/2022 6:31:53 PM PST by Garth Tater (September 11: The New Pearl Harbor -- on Rumble and Youtube)
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To: bankwalker

If I could wave a magic wand the 17th and the 19th would be gone in a heartbeat.


54 posted on 12/26/2022 6:42:23 PM PST by Antihero101607
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To: Antihero101607

not necessarily in that order ... LOL


55 posted on 12/26/2022 6:48:14 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Fiji Hill

Those stupid people are your rulers and they run government at all levels.


56 posted on 12/26/2022 6:55:14 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: 353FMG

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


57 posted on 12/26/2022 7:20:38 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Democrat politicians and voters are dangerous psychopaths. They confirm it everyday.)
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To: DennisR

Because we have too many stupid voters!!!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
And here’s a really ironic aspect of that fact: a countless number of those stupid voters, perhaps the majority, are college graduates!


58 posted on 12/26/2022 7:28:18 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Democrat politicians and voters are dangerous psychopaths. They confirm it everyday.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Excellent choice of words that I’ve never seen before.


59 posted on 12/26/2022 7:41:34 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Democrat politicians and voters are dangerous psychopaths. They confirm it everyday.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Those stupid people are not running America. Their handlers are are agents of the people who are running America.


60 posted on 12/26/2022 8:08:35 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe |_-)
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