I believe the definition of an expert fits. Someone who knows more and more about less and less, until he knows everything about nothing. This sure fits our political leaders.

It also explains why "hope and change" worked. Hope for what? Change what? He never said and the morons never asked.

It means that the GOP needs very simple messages -

Are you better off today than before Obama?

We don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.

The "fundamental" change we need is a Constatutional one.

Government IS the problem.

How did it get to be SO MUCH better working for the government?

Government is killing jobs in the private sector.

Hey, I should be getting paid for this great stuff....

The stupid are allowed to vote, and Chairman Obamao is what we get. The indoctrination of the sheeple by the media and Education today is astounding, and has produced an entitlement class that is dependent on Government to survive, they vote for their handouts from the Marxists that enslave them. This is it, 2012 will be the year America returns to the vision of the founders or the stupid are enslaved by the progressive Marxists who would destroy freedom. A vote for a democrat is tantamount to treason.

Didn't Adolph bring about change?

"The 'fundamental' change we need is a Constatutional one."

... Uh...

Maybe the fundamental change we need also involves a little education. As in, basic spelling...

The only thing worse than a stupid person being allowed to vote is someone who is stupid, but THINKS they are smart and are allowed to vote.

The MANY liberals I have come into contact with believe that they are "critical thinkers". This is a self-described moniker that they wear proudly! I have seen this time and time again, and THESE are the people that voted FOR OBAMA!

This means we have a MUCH bigger problem than we first imagined.

I am old school and I see an iceberg just below the surface of the Titanic!

When the concept of consequenses is removed from the equation, stupid flourishes. When you are taught that there is nor right or wrong answer to a question, only different answers of equal value. Or a system wherein the rewards for sucess are the same as for failure in order to promote "self esteem", then stupid is intelligence. Under these circumstances, is it any wonder that votes cast are based upon "feelings" rather than an evaluation of priciples and consequences. Feelings rather than thought are the currency of todays campaigns. The triumph of image over substance, empathy over action.

Once upon a time they were humble and diligent and looked to the Cross. Now they are arrogant and slack and they cross their fingers. Once they longed for love, pure and chaste, and held anything less as unworthy. Now they mourn the loss of a circus freak who played rub-a-bub with prepubescent boys. Once their was marriage, but now hooking up is all the rage. Once there was virtue in self control. Now there is the vaguest of differences between hard porn and family TV. It's not just stupidity, really. It's chronic masturbation on an unprecedented scale.

Sex in marriage: a cosmic force, a taste divine, God's blessing, entering and fixing solid a pair in faithful love and the bone deep knowledge of heaven's promise.

Sex alone or with a passer-by (the same thing): the power of fusion to bind a soul in loneliness, and fix a mind on the imaginary, on the wish instead of the real.

"Come!"

"Yum!"

"You know you want it!"

Now we can sell you anything.

Soon we will rule you utterly.

Tyranny loves a good circle jerk.

But Shhhhhhh...there's no one left who can mention it.

I had decided to make no New Year’s resolutions. However, after some thought, I have changed my mind and resolved to eliminate an ever-growing group of people from my life by adding them to the famous “You know” crowd.

“Surreal” is my new pet peeve. Things that are often quite ordinary are now labeled surreal for no reason at all.

It somehow reminds me of the old story about Finishing School being the place where they teach you to say “incredible” instead of “No crap?”.

I do hope you will agree with me because it’s like, you know, a surreal idea.

it is not that people are becoming more stupid, it is that more stupid people are voting. Any effort to increase the number of voters is an effort to get more uninformed people to vote. The Right does it just as much as the Left, and both side have equally screwed those who know better.

The founding fathers realized the problem with stupid uninformed voters who had no stake in the game. This is why only land owning men were allowed to vote. Now any person can vote. Our nation was founded as a Republic, and not a Democracy, for a reason.

@ Hank-

Oops- constitution - sorry.

Just hope my error didn't get in the way of my message.

Well, I don't actually think "stupid" is necessarily the right word. Many people have perfectly good brains that are like the pristine, low-milage "grandama-mobile" in a way: works fine but has hardly been used. This is a curable problem.

Perhaps "ignorant" is a better diagnosis for many people. The education system has been observably and systematically "dumbed-down" in my lifetime, and I'm in my 50s. From what my mother used to say about what she learned in high school and college, it had begun long before I was in school. I think this was done deliberately. Many schools no longer teach "civics" or any substantial American and World History. This is one part of the problem we have today, when people don't know the Constitution, how our government is supposed to work, and how we got to where we are today. I can't imagine such things have not been covered repeatedly K-12 like I had them. I gather much of this basic information required for a citizen to have a clue has been discarded in favor of things like Black History Month and Earth Day. Such things might be fine in themselves, but they need to be understood in the context of the whole. Without the foundation, the person can't help but be lost.

Which leads us to Mr. Reagan's prescription, "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so." These are the people who have been teaching our children for the most part, and dominate the universities. There are a great many intelligent poeple who have a lot to "unlearn." Look, for example, how many think that FDR got us out of the Depression, instead of making it deeper and last longer.

The "up" side of modern technology is that so much material in so many forms is readily available for anyone who wants to learn, much of it free or amazingly inexpensive. "Life-Long Learning" was a prescription for staying employable in a rapidly changing world. It is also available to anyone who wants to cure the deficits of their "education." It also helps those of us who home-school our children, partly to combat the problems mentioned above.

I do not think our children today are any less bright than children were in the past. I think they are walking, talking, noisy sponges who are constantly absorbing the world around them as people always have done. Many of the observable problems have to do with the content of what is being absorbed.

Ditto

Polling Places should be No Stupid Zones indeed.

Stumped a 54 year old "no such thing as absolutes" liberal once on "does 2+2=4?" so it wouldn't be too hard to weed a lot of folks out.

Best I could get was "maybe and sometimes."

After the '08 elections, we may not die stupid but I believe it's obvious that we will die surrounded by it.

What is certain is that we will die. When that happens, it will not matter if we were brilliant or stupid, well-educated or uninformed (or misinformed). Our earthly legacy will be our character, our moral fiber; and our eternal fate will also hang on that legacy.

The appalling truth about this country is that too many of us see nothing wrong with stealing from "the rich", cheating on our spouses and creditors, and generally substituting our personal fantasy for the truth.

I cannot understand how a republic could possibly be expected to survive such a moral challenge. None ever has.

All you have to do is look at the national debt. There is not a single elected representative in Washington who believes we will ever reduce that debt. And that is money we have stolen from our progeny; we have wasted our grandchildren's well-being on -- What?

It is one thing for a nation to plunder the riches of one group of citizens to benefit another group; it is quite another to obligate citizens yet unborn for our misplaced "compassion".

Hello America,

The late and former last statesman Senator, one of the few modern Democrats I have respect for, Danielle Patrick Moynihan said it best and loud when he coined the phrase, "The Dumbing Down of America" in response to modern culture, a lackadaisical government/judicial system and abysmal public school environment that we have allowed to happen.

The typical American brain is stuck on stupid. Remember that from the hurricane that struck New Orleans? Speaking of reality shows, I only like two, American Idol and X-Factor as I am a sucker, being a former singer for the human voice in full noted and worded bloom. The rest are so much Oprah Winfrey pablum for the limpid mind. I rest my case.

The Turban Torpedo

Hello America,

The key to our disjointed society lies first with 'We the people. . .' that keep voting political controllers into office who nominate left-wing advocate judges who advocate their progressivism by making socialist laws the law of the land who ensure left-wing academicians are put in key positions within academia who fill our little skulls full of mush full of misinformation pap in order for government to control them better.

It is easier to ingest copious amounts of mind numbing drivel that is put out by the entertainment community than put ones mind to intellectual pursuits. Reality shows took hold when the brain sucking lefties decided the best way to keep them stupid and depending on socialist government was to rob their minds of the ability to reason. One of the best propaganda tools put out there by the left has been movies and television, or the 'idiot box'. It robs the viewer of inductive reason.

Until 'We the people . . .' collectively discover our huge mistake by depending on the 'hearts on sleeve crowd' whose hearts are anywhere but on their sleeves we have no hope for a better tomorrow for us and our posterity.

Wake up America before our future is long gone.

The Turban Torpedo