ANY OUTSIDE OBSERVER OF THE US POLITICAL SCENE WILL IMMEDIATELY BE STRUCK BY THE POWERFUL ROLE THAT "PURE STUPIDITY" PLAYS IN AMERICAN DECISION MAKING...
AMERICANS EXHAULT IN THEIR STUPIDITY...THEY RELISH IT...THEY FLAUNT IT WHENEVER THEY CAN...
THE ELTIES WILL PIT THE STUPID AGAINST THE INTELLECTUALS AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY... THE ELITES DO THIS BY USING PROPAGANDA AND BIG LIES TO ENFLAME THE LESS INTELLIGENT PARTS OF THE ELECTORATE...
THE RESULT IS THAT AMERICANS SUFFER MORE THAN OTHER PEOPLE...BECAUSE OF THEIR STUPIDITY...
THEY SPEND MORE ON HEALTH CARE BUT GET WORSE RESULTS...
THEY WORK HARDER FOR LESS PAY...
IN THE MIDDLE AGES...IT WAS COMMON FOR THE ELITES TO "USE" THE SERFS OR PHEASANTS AGAINST SOME PERCEIVED THREAT FROM THE BETTER INFORMED CLASSES...THE PETTY NOBELS, OR THE MERCHANT CLASSES...
IN ANCIENT ROME THE RAMBLE WAS OFTEN ENGAGED WITH BREAD AND CIRCUSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE IMPERIAL POWER...AGAINST THE SENATORIAL CLASS...
SO,...THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE "FOX NEWS" FACTOR IN POLITICS...
EVEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES...AND AND IN ANCIENT TIMES...!
BUT "EMPOWERING" OR "GIVING VOICE" TO THE LOWER CLASSES CAN HAVE DOWNSIDES...AS THE FRENCH DISCOVERED IN 1789...
