Stupidity = Strength

Polls - Many Americans Simply Dumber Than Bush

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"Two recent polls, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll and a New York Times/CBS News poll, indicate why Bush is getting away with impeachable offenses. Half of the US population is incapable of acquiring, processing and understanding information.
What does it say for democracy that half of the American population is unable to draw a rational conclusion from unambiguous facts?"

One thing that I've noticed in recent years and especially in the last five is how seriously impaired people are in general. Not dumb. But there seems to be a severe flaw in thinking processes, like there's a crucial tool missing from the toolbox. When confronted with the obvious disaster of epic proportions, namely the current vicious administration, too many people just don't have what it takes to put 2 and 2 together. It's not as if their perceptual abilities are disabled, analytic abilities have gone missing.

For just one example, when the Rodney King video came out, there was that horrifying spectacle of cops standing around over a guy on the ground, wailing away on him with their clubs, just beating the snot out of him. But wait a minute, apologists for police misbehavior said, the man is resisting arrest! Who you gonna believe, us or your lying eyes? And an awful lot of people saw things their way.

This is so widespread it's astounding. I think there are two big reasons why.

Television keeps people divorced from their own lives. Constant exposure to the boob tube enables people to avoid mental heavy lifting, and becomes the arbiter of what's real or not. For a lot of them, if they don't see it on the screen it just ain't there. Conversely, some childlike quality kicks in and they'll believe everything some news anchor says.

Helping this along is the poison in the drinking water called fluoride. It's well known that totalitarian regimes used sodium fluoride to keep people docile. It's a matter of public record, just google it.

"The following letter was received by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, Milwaukee Wisconsin, on 2 October 1954, from Mr. Charles Perkins, a chemist:
[...] "Repeated doses of infinitesimal amounts of fluoride will in time reduce an individual's power to resist domination, by slowly poisoning and narcotizing a certain area of the brain, thus making him submissive to the will of those who wish to govern him."
http://www.davidicke.net/medicalarchives/badmed/stupidflouride.html

Fluoride was never forced on us for dental health, but for mental unhealthiness. I can only surmise that widespread and repeated consumption of a hazardous-waste by-product is directly related to cognitive malfunction.
You know, republicans.