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We Can Cure Democracy, But Can We Cure Stupid?
American Thinker ^ | 26 Mar, 2025 | Eliot Pattison

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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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: americanthinker; eliotpattison; leftism

1 posted on 03/26/2025 4:49:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

It is that so much that they “know” is wrong.


2 posted on 03/26/2025 4:49:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

It starts with fixing our education system.


3 posted on 03/26/2025 4:50:14 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: MtnClimber
"We Can Cure Democracy, But Can We Cure Stupid?"

We don't "cure" democracy, we help it to heal itself.
4 posted on 03/26/2025 4:55:06 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: MtnClimber

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.


5 posted on 03/26/2025 4:58:19 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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‘Ignorance can be cured, but stupid is forever.) - unknown author


6 posted on 03/26/2025 5:23:49 AM PDT by curious7
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To: curious7

Lets try that again:
‘Ignorance can be cured, but stupid is forever.’ - unknown author


7 posted on 03/26/2025 5:24:30 AM PDT by curious7
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To: MtnClimber

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8 posted on 03/26/2025 5:37:13 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: MtnClimber

There’s a difference???


9 posted on 03/26/2025 5:45:22 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: airborne

Yup....I worked with Grad students who could not spell or write a proper sentence


10 posted on 03/26/2025 5:53:00 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: MtnClimber

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...


11 posted on 03/26/2025 5:57:06 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: MtnClimber

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.


12 posted on 03/26/2025 6:04:55 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: SMARTY

We’ve got some of those posting even right here at FR.


13 posted on 03/26/2025 6:13:17 AM PDT by OKSooner (Oh, the mad fools!)
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To: MtnClimber

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.


14 posted on 03/26/2025 6:16:08 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: MtnClimber

Another useless idiot writer who doesn’t know America is a Constitutional Republic.


15 posted on 03/26/2025 6:59:42 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: MtnClimber; All

Cure stupid? First recognize we are not a democracy. Read the Constitution. If the words are too big, recite the Pledge.


16 posted on 03/26/2025 8:22:52 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: MtnClimber

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.


17 posted on 03/26/2025 9:37:38 AM PDT by LastDayz (A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
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