Really,.It's Worse Than That

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Really, it's worse than that.

The stupid people vote in the primaries first.

Both side's primaries.

And, obviously, they outnumber the intelligent people now and have for a while. I blame the public education system, and have for a long while.

It's easier to lead stupid people around than intelligent, informed ones. Here's that Connie du Toit quote again:

The other day our Carpenter’s helper heard me say something along the lines of, "it is difficult to conclude that incompetence is the reason why our public schools have deteriorated. There comes a point where you have to suspect sabotage, or a conspiracy."

He asked me if I really meant that. I gave him the five minute explanation of John Dewey’s known affiliation with communists, his frequent essays and articles about the wonders of the Soviet education system, and his quote, "You can’t make Socialists out of individualists. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent."

I then went on to tell him about how public schools changed at the turn of the last century. That there were others involved in turning Americans from free-thinking individualists to factory drones. I also added that many people probably went along with it because it seemed like a good idea, but there were certainly enough people behind the scenes, who knew that the goal posts had been moved. THAT is a conspiracy.

Yes. There does come that time when you are forced to don the tinfoil hat.

The incompetence excuse only works once. Incompetence this great is impossible to attribute to accident.

Amen.

And you may want to give a listen to some sound clips from a recent speech by Michele Obama. I'm fairly certain I don't want my government trying to fix my soul so that the Great Collective functions as she seems to believe it ought to.