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Ohio Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 10:52 PM Original message |
Why are freepers/teabaggers/repugs so fucking stupid? |
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quinnox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 10:55 PM Response to Original message |
1. Its a good question |
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whyverne (734 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 11:36 PM Response to Reply #1 |
14. I think it's as simple as that. |
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Zoeisright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 12:23 AM Response to Reply #1 |
18. Yep, that's exactly it. I love this quote: |
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Bosso 63 (759 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 08:23 AM Response to Reply #18 |
26. John Stuart Mill, I like that quote too. |
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mrs_p (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
2. lack of critical thinking skills |
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sharesunited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 11:09 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Worse, it is the willful rejection of knowledge, wisdom, and common sense. |
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Ohio Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 11:11 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Exactly |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 10:58 PM Response to Original message |
3. Well, those charter schools and Fox News are gonna make more and more of them. nt |
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LiberalFighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 11:06 PM Response to Original message |
4. Because they think with their thumb up their butt. |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
7. Do you have any proof that the teabaggers |
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Ohio Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 11:28 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. Take a look at the freepers site |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 09:34 AM Response to Reply #13 |
36. I haven't been there much since the election |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
8. When you're a GOPer you don't have to think. Fux News and Limbaugh do it for you. |
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lib2DaBone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
9. The Republicans are smart enough to tap into this populist unrest... |
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KILL THE WISE ONE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
10. we can't all be above average |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 11:25 PM Response to Original message |
11. They are slowly turning into rhinoceroses |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 11:27 PM Response to Original message |
12. they believed in whatever is told to them for so long they just don't process facts.. |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 11:56 PM Response to Original message |
15. Stupid, or... |
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CANDO (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
16. They were born that way! |
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EmeraldCityGrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 12:07 AM Response to Original message |
17. Uneducated people with access to the intertubes... |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
19. Read Altemeyer's "The Authoritarians". It should shed some light. nt |
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mysticalchick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 09:08 AM Response to Reply #19 |
35. That was a fascinating read ... |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 10:44 AM Response to Reply #35 |
40. You bring out an important point about authoritarians. They can not see their own |
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tex-wyo-dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 01:00 AM Response to Original message |
20. Because it's a lot easier to sit back and be told what your opinion should be... |
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immoderate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 01:34 AM Response to Original message |
21. The promise of great riches, or status, or power. Something they can't deliver... |
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Eagle_Eye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 05:23 AM Response to Original message |
22. Home schooling |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 05:36 AM Response to Original message |
23. I actually know a freeper who thinks that particular decision is a bad idea. |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 06:15 AM Response to Original message |
24. Perhaps You Have Cause and Effect Reversed |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 06:52 AM Response to Original message |
25. Statistically speaking |
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Bosso 63 (759 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
27. Fear is the mind killer. |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
28. Laziness. Mental laziness. |
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santamargarita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 08:39 AM Response to Original message |
29. They believe their own propaganda... |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
30. Blinded by their ideology.. |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
31. Because it is hard to educate one's self, and to think, and to keep educating one's self. nt |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
32. Religion |
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Cirque du So-What (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
33. I don't believe it's due to low IQ or poor education |
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AlinPA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 09:01 AM Response to Original message |
34. RE: the example of them supporting the SCOTUS decision, it's because |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
37. Religion and fear. |
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MrMickeysMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 09:48 AM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Ding- Ding! |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
39. Religion, gullibility, extremely low intelligence, fear, and racism. n/t |
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keroro gunsou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
41. ignorance is bliss |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
42. If they were smart, they would be Democrats - or worse!!!!! nt |
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