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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: KLP who wrote (507114)9/9/2012 3:12:26 AM
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>> Some people are so stupid they don't know where or how jobs are made.....some aren't stupid, but willfully ignorant of how jobs are made....

I am torn on the "stupid" issue.

For years, I've maintained that a person, to support liberalism in our country, must be intellectually challenged. And there is a great deal of anecdotal evidence found on SI that there is in fact an intellectual problem in many cases.

I argue politics in many forums, including with friends over dinner and forums that are comprised of almost totally extreme liberals and a few places in between. I can now state categorically that they're not all idiots.

I think they tend to fall into a few categories --

- People who aren't stupid but choose not to be informed. My cousin is in this category.

- Union members (including school teachers and certain government employees).

- Yellow dog democrats.

- Highly educated, but with some critical component missing from the brain that prevents logical reasoning when it comes to matters of government (Bill Joy, Bill Gates)

- Performing Artists - Musicians, Actors, Painters -- they just cannot get it.

- News Reporters - Can be highly intelligent yet still not grasp the concept that this all must come to an end.

- Beneficiaries - Persons who stand to gain in some way by electing liberals.

- Minorities - who identify with candidates of their minority over all others, always.

- Radicals - Occupy Wall Street, for example. May overlap with "Others - stupid people" below.

- Others - stupid people.

In the end relatively few are just "stupid". Most have another reason for supporting liberals candidates.
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