I wrote yesterday that American voters are stupid and pointed to Scott Brown as proof. Now, if anybody was actually reading my blog posts, that might make some of them angry.
Unfortunately, it’s not just angry ranting on my part. I’m not a hater, even though I sometimes sound like one. American voters really are painfully, embarrassingly and demonstrably stupid.
I’m not basing this entirely on Jay Leno’s Jaywalking segments. I’m aware that that is an edited comedy segment and they probably had to spend hours, or at least long minutes, to find people who couldn’t name a country beginning with U, or didn’t know that the language spoken in England was English.
I’m not basing this entirely on the Miss Teen South Carolina contestant who totally lost control of her mind-tongue co-ordination capacity in her answer to the question “Why are Americans so stupid?”
I’m not basing this entirely on the roommate I once had, from New York, who argued with me when I said that his city was an island. He wasn’t arguing the details, that it’s actually more like an archipelago and also has a small section of the mainland within its borders, he just said I was full of shit, and my two other roommates, air-headed California boys, nodded in agreement. They were a bunch of assholes but I’m not basing this argument just on them.
I’m not basing this entirely on the fact that creationism (intelligent design) is taught in some schools as if it were science.
I’m not basing this entirely on the fact that very few Americans speak any language other than English.
I’m not basing this on the fact that they show up at protest demonstrations with misspelled signs (Get a brain, morans!)
No, I’m basing my argument mostly on the fact that George W. Bush, who by some definitions of the word would have to be considered mentally retarded, was elected to the presidency twice. I’m basing this on the fact that Connecticut voters keep returning Joe Lieberman to the Senate, Iowa voters continue to back Charles Grassley, Minnesota voters elected Michelle Bachman (O.K., one district, there may be other areas of MN which are more intelligent than the national average), Illinois voters installed Rod Blagojevich, Alaska voters elected Sarah Palin in a landslide and, of course, Massachusetts voters chose Scott Brown.
And those aren’t even the seriously stupid states.