I'm very willing to accept your premise that people are willful,
stupid, ignorant, and all the rest.
The question is: why does that imply a particular voting pattern? Why
do idiots vote republican? Have republicans mastered some weird sort
of hypnotism that gathers in the ignorant?
I'd presume some sort of Gaussian curve for idiots, wouldn't you? Why
are they skewed one way or the other? Why aren't they stupid enough
to vote for Obama?
-- Owen
On Oct 31, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
Owen,
I'm guessing (purely guessing; I could be completely wrong) that you
have
not ever had a job that brought you squarely into daily contact with
"average" people. I suggest this, because if you had, you most
assuredly
would not be asking (paraphrasing now)
"Why are people so willing to be completely fucking ignorant?"
The answer, IMNSHO is: the human population is, in the aggregate, on
the
average, with some exceptions, pretty happy being completely fucking
ignorant.
Another way of asking your question would be: "Why are people the
way they
are?" The answer of course, is: "Because that's the way they are."
Of course now, I find myself wondering why you are wondering why
people are
the way they are...
I mean, isn't it obvious?
--Doug
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