STUPIDITY REIGNS SUPREME
If
you were a listener to our radio show which ran for five plus years, or read
any of our blogs, you would know that the American public, in general, is not
held in high regard. Various and sundry
“interviewers” have questioned random people on the street about things, really
basic things about America,
and the answers have been simply appalling in their stupidity and lack of
knowledge. For years I’ve been saying
that ignorance and apathy are doing more to undermine the stability of this
country than almost anything else. The
phrase 'useful idiots', supposedly Lenin's,
refers to Westerners saying good things about bad regimes. Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin used the term “polyezniy
idiot” or “useful idiot” to describe sympathizers in the West who blindly
supported Communist leaders…and America,
through its systematic dumbing-down of school children from kindergarten all
the way through college, is breeding these useful idiots by the droves.
In
videotaped interviews one can see people, and some of them are college
students, willing to sign a petition to do away with the First Amendment and,
in fact, the Constitution AND the Bill
of Rights…because they don’t have a clue as to what is in those documents,
having never been taught anything but a passing reference to them. Some older people, and you’d think they would
have more sense, go right along with these outrageous “petitions”, never giving
it a second thought. The generations
coming up after mine, possibly the last real link to World War 2, will probably
accept most any conditions that will exist because they don’t know any better,
or different. What, or who, captures America’s
interest in this time of political turmoil?
In
those same interviews, knowledge of basic American things was lacking, BUT
asking those same people about
sports scores, celebrity marriages or breakups, and the latest movies and the
answers come quickly…and they’re accurate.
If anyone needed evidence that We The People are being subjected to a
form of “sleeping sickness”, these interviews could certainly provide that
evidence. Speaking of evidence, the
subject of Sharia, which is the law of Islam, came up in a few of those
interviews. Sharia is a very harsh form
of “justice” which is, in fact, the very antitheses of most “Western” law. Under Sharia punishment is extreme for what
might pass for minor misdemeanors in our Western(translation: civilized)
world. Shoplifting, as an example,
which in American courts is a misdemeanor and might warrant a fine, or several
days in jail coupled with a method of paying back for the stolen item, under
Sharia it gets a hand chopped off.
Also
under the broad heading of stupidity would be the way our government negotiates
with other countries…friend and foe alike. In that regard stupidity DOES
reign supreme. Take the Iran nuclear deal as an
example. To a country that is lying to
us about their reasons for building nuclear plants, and burying them under
about 60 feet of concrete, we sign a treaty for them to go on doing what
they’re doing. They, on the other hand,
do NOT
sign the treaty. We allow them to
self-police their activities about nuclear plants and we MUST give them 24
days notice before we plan an inspection of their facilities. On top of all that stupidity, we release
billions of their dollars that we’ve had frozen in our banks because they have
not been truthful or compliant in the past…and now, with this infusion of so
much money we fully expect that they WILL be truthful and compliant to a treaty that they didn’t
sign. Bringing it down to a level that
most people can understand…you get a traffic ticket but refuse to pay it or
show up in court. What do you think the judge
is going to do…just let you slide on that, or will the bench warrant be issued
for your arrest? It’s going to be the
latter, folks, and of that you can be sure.
We
are, or were, a nation of laws and, for the most part, we understood them and
lived by them. Laws provide regimens
that make for harmonious living, standards by which we learn to associate right
from wrong. In a lawless society, which
ours is quickly becoming, due in large part, to the
Executive branch of the government taking over the duties and powers of both
the Judicial and Legislative branches of the government, we are placing
ourselves on the path to a dictatorship.
Dictators, no matter how benign they may be, are repugnant to Americans,
or should be. A couple of centuries back
we fought one of the world’s great powers in order to be our own bosses. Now, for the most part, we have ceded our
individualism and freedoms to the government.
Wake up America…your
country needs you, desperately.