Let's face it, there are going to be plenty of stupid people voting
for Obama, and maybe even for stupid reasons.
And let us not forget: No matter how scary the closeness of the
election for those of us supporting Obama, we have to be realistic and
acknowledge that it is totally effing amazing that a black man with an
African father of Muslim heritage, and a white mother, born in Hawaii
and raised in Indonesia, who spent his early adulthood blowing snow on
the south side of Chicago, is probably going to be elected president.
john
On Oct 31, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
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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