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How could someone this stupid get elected to any office? (Original Post)
Archae
Jun 2015
OP
3-2-1 and we have liftoff !! The Dunning–Kruger effect is on it's way where it will reach...
BlueJazz
Jun 2015
#4
Yes - And the Lives of the Great Televangelists Stand As Shining Examples!!!
panfluteman
Jun 2015
#9
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)1. This guy...
Baka, doji, manuke (Idiot, Clumsy, Stupid.)
Old Codger
(4,205 posts)2. Apparently
The voters are as stupid or stupider
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)3. Let me tell you tale of a city run by a Church . . .
Please click here (Boccacio, The Decameron, Day 1/Second Story).
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)4. 3-2-1 and we have liftoff !! The Dunning–Kruger effect is on it's way where it will reach...
...the planet "Don't-know-very-much-about-anything-but-think-I-do" shortly.
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Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)5. He is a softer version of Jim Jones.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)6. Religion has great appeal to simpletons.
Thinking not required.
IHateTheGOP
(1,059 posts)7. Too funny
All the things he says you'll have in a secular town describes what we have in the South!! THE BIBLE BELT!! Ha ha ha ha ha!!!
EEO
(1,620 posts)8. So much projection.
So much.
panfluteman
(2,065 posts)9. Yes - And the Lives of the Great Televangelists Stand As Shining Examples!!!
Note: Yes, I'm being sarcastic here. And Christians don't lie or bear false witness - except when they're talking about the separation of church and state in our constitution, which anyone who passed high school civics class should know DOES exist.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)10. I'm reminded of something H L Mencken wrote
When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
He was thinking specifically of Warren Harding when he wrote this in 1920.
libodem
(19,288 posts)11. Drivel
And hocum. Bullshit.
Know thine enemy is all I can say.
zebonaut
(3,688 posts)12. Atheists are Moral entities and don't need a fear of a sky god to do good.