The list of lies is long and will ALWAYS get longer. The leftist base includes the 30M Americans with an IQ <85. That is too dim for the Army to accept even as cannon fodder. Below 75 (the average IQ in the country of Haiti) there is no connection between action and consequences. My dogs understand that!
That is how the MSM continues to operate, keep telling lies to those that will not /cannot question.
Good theory, but anybody with IQ < 70 is sure not interested in politics or watching news.
| The leftist base includes the 30M Americans with an IQ of less than 85. * * * Yes, it's a good point, bobbo666. People with low IQs will always be the "mind-numbed robots" Rush talked about. And look at the high-IQ Leftists at the many universities in Massachusetts and California. Not just in liberal arts colleges, but also in technical powerhouses like Stanford and MIT. A key issue is the power of conformity. Once a person gets hooked by Leftist views, other Leftists put enormous social pressure on them to stay inside the cult. It's not just the fear of speaking out freely, the cult will "excommunicate" a free thinker, shunning them and socially isolated them from their neighbors. Of course these are the same tactics used by the Mao Communists in their Orwellian "Cultural" Revolution. So we should be grateful true debate is alive on Free Republic. If FReepers were afraid to speak contrarian views, FR would become a dull place where everyone drinks the Purple Koolaid. Rush, in his later years, talked about the wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a leading pundit of the mid-19th century. Here's a part of Emerson's famous comment on self-reliance and the need to break free from a cult:
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood." — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. |