Posted on 03/26/2025 4:49:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It’s a sad commentary on our culture that we have to talk about an epidemic of ignorance, but we can no longer dismiss this syndrome as a mere irritant.
After four long years during which our democracy was under constant peril, one might say the November election cured that crisis, at least for now, returning the American voter and American values to center stage. Zealots of the Left, however, continue their tired chorus of accusation and cancellation. It is staggering how blind to election results and deaf to the voices of voters they seem to be. Wokeness may be in retreat but this core cadre, still including many in legacy media, continue their ranting about existential threats and trying to shame us into shedding crocodile tears over illegals. They have doubled down on their playbook even though its tenets have been hollowed out, proven false again and again.
This failing mindset was perfectly captured by the perspicacious novelist Saul Bellow, an early victim of political correctness: “A great deal of intelligence,” Bellow observed, “can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is great.” What we have been witnessing is proof of the Bellow equation: the Left ever more desperately clings to its illusions, and its investment in ignorance commensurately soars. Their conjured existential crises have evolved from global warming to climate change, to Russian collusion, Trump 45, then Trump 47, and now expanding to include Elon Musk, every challenge to the Deep State, and whatever Executive Order happens to be signed today.
I recall being puzzled long ago at the leftist declarations of certain of my acquaintances, wondering what sources their hypereducated intellects were consulting to support their emotional pronouncements. Gradually I realized it wasn’t about their words, it was about that emotion.
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It is that so much that they “know” is wrong.
It starts with fixing our education system.
and all this time we’ve been told it was TRUMP that loved the uneducated no one ever pointed out it was democrat policies that created the uneducated in the first place? well thanks democrats...I think.
‘Ignorance can be cured, but stupid is forever.) - unknown author
Lets try that again:
‘Ignorance can be cured, but stupid is forever.’ - unknown author
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There’s a difference???
Yup....I worked with Grad students who could not spell or write a proper sentence
No...
Stupid cures itself if surrounded by people who are not afraid to point out they’re stupid. And nature will take care of the more stubborn stupids...
Democracy does not need to be fixed, it is just fine.
Ignorance can be improved, but not stupid. What is annoying is that some intelligent folks are also insane — that can probably not be fixed.
We’ve got some of those posting even right here at FR.
Stupid can be fixed despite pithy statements to the contrary. What cannot be fixed are errors of logic. The democrats are illogical. Given a set of facts they will typically reach the wrong conclusion.
Another useless idiot writer who doesn’t know America is a Constitutional Republic.
Cure stupid? First recognize we are not a democracy. Read the Constitution. If the words are too big, recite the Pledge.
Got in “trouble” for displaying a sign that said “You Can’t Fix Stupid” in my automotive class. This phrase was emblazoned on a wooden wrench.... thought it was humorous myself.
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