Ted Rall -

[Owlet]

http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/




"At this writing, the world's greatest nation flails under the rule of
buffoons and madmen, bogged down in two optional wars we're actually
losing. The world's richest economy is shedding jobs, running up debts
and building nothing for the future. Voters, offered an election year
alternative to the subliterate idiot who single-handedly created this
mess, spurn him for a leader even dumber than they are. America has
become a stultocracy: government by morons, for morons."

[Guaranteed]

1. LOL yeah basically.

It makes me so sad to say it, because it basically means that I'm going to leave, especially if Bush wins.

I'm not going to have any part of this.

[bluestateguy]

2. This column is dangerously similar to Neil Boortz' recent column

Which can be found here:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/nealboortz/nb20040924.shtml

Once we go down that road of "tests" for people to vote it will be all too easy to bring back property qualifications and other schemes that will be devised by the Right for the purposes of cleansing the rolls of non-whites and poor people.

[Owlet]

3. Wow! Yer right!

What does this mean?

a. plagiarism
b. 2 smart guys reaching the same conclusion independently

I'm kind of two minds about this issue of stoopid voters. On the one hand, I really resent some willfully ignorant voter in Ohio or some other battleground state having his/her exercise of franchise carry more weight than that of my whole family here in solid blue Connecticut. On the other hand, I'm really leery of any kind of voter knowledge test. If "No Child Left Behind" is any example, then we'll simply have Fox News broadcasting the answers 24/7 - teaching to the test, in other words.

We have ignorant voters because that's the way the elite prefer it. Long ago when I was in public school the objective of education was to produce an "informed citizenry" which was seen as the backbone of the system. Nowadays I hear politicians in both parties state the goal of public education as "training the workforce". Makes all the difference.