Rethugs are really, really stupid

[Hugabear]

Seriously, how is it possible for an organization to be so consistently wrong on just about every single issue?

In order to be a rethug in "good standing", you have to ascribe to the following:

- Tax cuts for the rich create jobs (despite the fact that the Bush tax cuts had the opposite effect)
- People choose to be gay, and thus endure a lifetime of insults, discrimination, bullying, and being ostracized from one's family
- Climate change doesn't exist, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary
- Invading and occupying foreign countries will endear their citizens to us (if it hasn't happened yet, it will eventually, we just need more troops)
- There's nothing wrong with our current health care system
- Immigrants are taking all of our jobs (as if they would be willing to pick fruit for less than minimum wage)
- Barack Obama is a Kenyan Muslim
- We don't need government regulation, private enterprise and the free market can police itself
- Bush actually won the 2000 election
- Saddam had WMD's, he just did a really good job hiding them. He also had deep ties to Al Qaeda.
- The earth is only 6000 years old, and mankind just magically popped into existence one day
- Stem cell research is evil
- People on unemployment are just lazy bums who don't want to work

I'm sure there's plenty more that I'm leaving out. But just based on the list above, how is it that one group of people can believe all of the above?

[RKP5637]

1. It's the inverse of intelligence all the way! I never cease to be amazed. And

what astounds me are those that believe them. It's like we're going through an intelligence warp.

[HughBeaumont]

2. The media is liberal.

Peace through STRENGTH!!!

Can't strengthen the weak by weakening the strong!!

Education and innovation will get us out of this economic mess!!

Why should the rich be asked to sacrifice? They worked much harder and longer than the rest of us to get where they're at today!!

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT.

[patrice]

3. - any jobs "created" by the rich are good desirable jobs.

[Hugabear]

4. Raising the minimum wage is bad for workers

Also, unions are bad for workers

[patrice]

5. - status = merit = authority

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Realize they truly believe that Liberals are truly really

stupid too. And here lies the heart of the problem and why NOTHING will be solved in this country... and it has gotten far worst...

No, not saying that they are right... but this is akin to RELIGION, and when you discuss FAITH...

[HughBeaumont]

22. Difference is, their rules have been solidified and are proven failures.

So we can say, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that yes, their way is STUPID.

When has anything remotely resembling "liberal" ever been TRIED in this country these past 30 years, especially economically? What reasoning/proof do they have to go on that our way would even work if it's never been attempted?

Social programs are the only thing keeping this nation even a thread-margin stable. Without them, it'd be a massacre.

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. The point I am making is not about results

but that we are discussing faith at this point... and it has it's own dangers.. in fact, I think it is far more dangerous than oh thirty years ago before we entered religious faith standards.

[Dept of Beer]

7. I came to the realization that there are plenty of stupid people all over the globe.

Why should the USA be so different from apartheid South Africa or Syria? Humans are stupid...choose to be stupid...choose to be lied to.

So show their junk on twitter. They may do a good job, but show some really stupid judgment.

For instance (anecdote) how many assholes walk out into traffic or cycle through red lights every day even though in my state running red lights and jay walking is a dumb thing to do and probably still illegal. No the cops won't enforce it. They're either lazy or the PTB don't want to rock the boat.

If you were to point out that said person has just run the red would they usually give you the bird or thank you for the correction?

Stupid arrogant people live in their own world, and they would never consider that what they are doing is wrong...until caught. Then they claim some other line of bullshit to try to get out of an obvious mistake.

Humans are weak, evil and vulgar: Conservative or Liberal.

[Webster Green]

8. They are evil.

Some rethugs are stupid.

All rethugs are evil.

[patrice]

9. - all other factors being equal, "we" would have responded to a White Obama the same as theBlack one

[patrice]

10. - the ethical fate of our species depends upon what adult pairs of the same sex do with their bodies

[patrice]

11. - we have a moral imperative to tell women what they may do about a non-viable un-wanted

fetus, but not to defend the children of other nations that have the mis-fortune to be the location of one of our proxy wars.

[patrice]

12. - any and all profit is good for everyone and everything.

[Kablooie]

13. But they are pretty good at inventing effective scandals when they want to.

Since the Republican challenger to Obama probably won't have a strong following and the GOP primary mission is to destroy Obama in the next election I wonder what horrifying scandal they will try to foist on the unsuspecting public.

[jimlup]

14. True with notable exceptions...

Darth Cheney comes to mind. Sometimes, it isn't that they are stupid. It is just that they are really really evil.

[holdencaufield]

15. Things I Believe

For what it's worth -- I'm not a Republican, if you had to pin a label on me, it would be Libertarian, and this is what I believe...

- Tax cuts for the rich create jobs (despite the fact that the Bush tax cuts had the opposite effect)

Tax cuts for EVERYONE create jobs -- just not where you always want them. With more private money in circulation, there is more spending and more investment which creates jobs. Sometimes, however, those jobs go overseas.

- People choose to be gay, and thus endure a lifetime of insults, discrimination, bullying, and being ostracized from one's family

Who, or what, anyone sleeps with is none of my bloody business -- unless it's my daughter. In that case, I don't rule-out ANY insults, discrimination or bullying of said d-bag (of any sex) trying to sleep with my princess.

- Climate change doesn't exist, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary

The climate is changing -- and has been doing so for millions of years. It's called weather.

- Invading and occupying foreign countries will endear their citizens to us (if it hasn't happened yet, it will eventually, we just need more troops)

Doing anything for other people -- regardless how violent or benign it might be -- will only make them hate you. Any parent of teenagers knows this.

- There's nothing wrong with our current health care system

There is currently no cure for a beer gut other than diet and exercise. I see this as a TOTAL failure of the healthcare system.

- Immigrants are taking all of our jobs (as if they would be willing to pick fruit for less than minimum wage)

I'm already an immigrant taking someone's job -- so, I can't complain.

- Barack Obama is a Kenyan Muslim

Who cares? If tomorrow it were proved with mathematical certainty that he was born in Upper Mongolia, would he leave office? No -- so WGAFRA?

- We don't need government regulation, private enterprise and the free market can police itself

Regulation doesn't ensure fairness any more than non-regulation. The only difference is -- which D-bags will profit from which regulations? On the whole, companies make better things than governments. The Post Office never invented anything nearly as cool as an iPad.

- Bush actually won the 2000 election

See above {Barack Obama is a Kenyan Muslim] -- He's already gone, WGAFRA?

- Saddam had WMD's, he just did a really good job hiding them. He also had deep ties to Al Qaeda.

If he did -- he doesn't have them now. If he didn't, he's still dead. Move on.

- The earth is only 6000 years old, and mankind just magically popped into existence one day

I feel at LEAST 6,000 years old every morning

- Stem cell research is evil

All research is cool -- If we want to live forever and stay good-looking doing it, research the heck out of that.

- People on unemployment are just lazy bums who don't want to work

SOME people on unemployment ARE lazy bums -- some people who WORK are lazy bums. I imagine they exist in equal percentages in both populations.

and, if you disagree with me then, you sir, are worse than Hitler.

[zinnisking]

17. What are your views about activist judges, liberal media, and the Democrat Party?

TIA, Mr. Libertarian!

[holdencaufield]

18. I don't know what TIA means...

... you kids and your acronyms.

But... now that you ask.

Judicial activism is wrong (on both sides of the political spectrum) because is circumvents elected lawmakers. Of course judges will have opinions based upon their own philosophical leanings, but to deliberately flout the intent of law to forward an agenda (any agenda) is an abuse of power.

I despise liberal media as much as I despise conservative media. In today's market, the consumer of news has choice. But, if I were going to pick one to invest in, it would have to be conservative media -- the seem to do much better commercially.

I believe that party politics is a corruption of the Democratic ideal. It's an exercise in the consolidation of power for the sake of power. In America -- you have two parties who try to include as many as potential voters (and contributors) as possible and end up actually representing the views of almost none of them. For example, I know lots of Republicans who believe nothing of what this thread claims are Republican articles of faith. Conversely, I know at least two Democrats who believe that Methadone Programs for preschoolers is probably not the best use of taxpayer money. It is logically impossible for EVERYONE who belongs to a party to believe what that party espouses to support.

[zinnisking]

21. Got it.

Well played. (wink, wink)

TIA = Thanks in advance

[provis99]

16. its not that conservatives are naturally stupid,

its that conservatism is a stupid ideology: it tends to make people stupid.

[mwb970]

19. Why is there no group that is RIGHT about everything?

I too have observed with amazement and distress the tendency of republicans to take the inhuman, foolish, un-American, idiotic side of each and every issue, large or small, that comes up for discussion. Just from a statistical point of view, how likely is it that one specific group of like-minded people would be wrong about everything? Yet there you have it: I give you the republican party.

Wouldn't it be great if there were some group (Democrats, say) who were right about things as often as republicans are wrong? But Democrats are all over the map on everything.

Of course, one can be right all the time by simply taking the stated republican position on anything and reversing it 180 degrees. But nobody seems to even do that.

[malaise]

20. Stupid, ignorant, racist, backward

anti-science, anti-reason - put simply fucked up beyond belief.

[wiggs]

24. Bad teachers are the reason for a struggling education system. nt

[wiggs]

25. Voter fraud and voter impersonation are serious problems and if we have to

keep thousands from voting just to avoid the once-in-a-decade instance of one person committing vote fraud then it's worth it.

[wiggs]

26. More domestic drilling can solve national security problems and high gas costs. (They

must not know that domestic oil production is up under PObama).