The snobbish elitism of these kind of people astounds me. I mean, I agree, there are a LOT of stupid people in the world, but a) many, if not most, of them don't vote, and b) I see no reason their stupidity should be biased to one side or the other. I see no reason that there aren't just as many stupid people supporting Howard Dean, etc. out of ignorance, as there are giving Bush high approval marks out of ignorance.

I also LOVE the disclaimer - oh, this can't mean you, if you've read this far. Oh, ok, thanks for the patronizing tone there, bub.

Why didn't he title it,"You Are All Big Stupidheads"?

This guy has brought out the "S" alright. It's tattooed right in the center of his forehead. Hilarious!

Gee, so all along I never even realized... my problem is simply that I'm Stupid!

All these years, it never dawned on me that "[I] cannot understand the phenomenon of cause and effect. [I'm] perplexed by issues comprising more than two sides. [I] don't have the wherewithal to expand the sources of [my] information. And above all -- far above all -- [I] don't think."

This asshat has opened my eyes at last. Lifelong Republican that I am, I'm going out and registering as a Democrat: it's the only known cure for Stupidity™.

Does the success of democracy depend on the intelligence of the voters? On the basis of experience over the centuries, I doubt it!

So, if I'm stupid, that must mean my Bush-hatin', underachieving in-law who believes every conspiracy theory he runs across on the internet is the epitome of intelligence.

What a world...

Seems to me that every time I see something in a Seattle newspaper, it's really really dumb. Granted, it's a fairly small sample and newspapers in general tend to be dumb, but maybe there's another reason too?

Maybe I'm getting mixed up with Portland though
Hey, I'm not the only one:)

I had a theory on this when I worked in retail still. We called it the PABS theory. People Are Basically Stupid. But the average voter in no way IMO can be summed up the same way the guy who puts him PC keyboard in the dishwasher can (Or at least I hope He/She cant)
My mom once told me something that I live by to this day. "When everyone around you seems to have a problem, maybe its you that is the problem"
Wonder if I monogram that on a hanky and send it to him to mop his tears.

It's true that, as my brother once remarked, we have all this advanced technology and yet we have people stupider than ever before -- on all sides. I'm far from the brightest bulb on the tree but... There are a lot of people who (I hope) know how to drive a car, but plaster their cars with stickers indicating that they think that. e.g., "Don't like abortion, don't have one" is a reply to those of us who believe abortion is murder, or that "You can't hug a child with nuclear arms" is an argument against nuclear deterrence" or that "God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" is a brilliant argument against homosexuality, and one that I never, ever heard about a billion times before.

Nealstarkman@msn.com?

This reminds me of a book-club meeting at which my psuedointellectual friends and I were discussing something marginally related to religion. We had a new member who'd recently moved to town from Portland, OR. She proceeded to go on a rant about the evils of Christianity, particularly Catholicism. It obviously had never occurred to her that highly educated people might be religious, and it was evident that she hadn't studied up on Christianity, but was simply displaying the Christian-bashing behavior of her former peers. When she was done, you could've heard a pin drop.

Fortunately, we were as polite as we were dumb, and the topic shifted. Afterwards, I pointed out that her closed-mindedness was rather inconsistent with her self-professed tolerance, as she was quite proud that her husband had been interested in Native American spirituality and had been out to the sweat lodges. In addition, one of the group was in the middle of a losing fight with cancer, and as she was finding some strength through her faith, the anti-Christian remarks were especially unkind.

I think my friend did do an honest self-appraisal of her thinking, since her teenage daughter later became active in a local church. However, most lefties are so isolated within their social circles that they just don't know any conservatives. The organizations to which they belong portray conservatives as troglodytes, in oder to further that group's own agenda. Poor lefties, they just need to get out more.

One book I found to be extremely illuminating in this regard is "The Closing of the American Mind," by Allan Bloom. It's ten years old, but still as relevant today as it was then, perhaps more so.

The author may be an elitist jackass...but consider, also, the mental worth of the editor who thought this would make a fine contribution to public discourse.

"People who vote for the other major political party are stupid." A sure way to win votes -- for the other political party.

Me no savvy. Too many syllables.