“… I possess no confidence in the ability of the American electorate to make sensible decisions. I have reached this conclusion based on an incontrovertible truth: You people will believe anything.“
“… I possess no confidence in the ability of the American electorate to make sensible decisions. I have reached this conclusion based on an incontrovertible truth: You people will believe anything.“
Can I safely assume that he probably also does not believe in HOPE and CHANGE?
Oh,wait. He’s a staff columnist for the Denver Post. He has a vested interest in HOPE and CHANGE. It’s just all that other stuff that is far out.
“………..A Newsweek poll says the number of believers is up 15 percent since the 1980s, so apparently we’re trending dimwit.”
Baaahhwwaaa, that one got coffee through the nose and into the keyboard!!!!
Well, he totally wrong. It’s not the “American Electorate”, it’s the whole damn bunch of us.
And his rant is proof positive he should include himself.
I was with him until he started rationalizing his own beliefs. That being said I love all you Christians, Muslims, Joo’s and the rest. No offence intended, JMO.
I’m pretty sure he wasn’t “rationalizing his own beliefs”. Seems to me him comments about Beelzebub and hell were an attempt at biting sarcasm – an attempt at pointing out the way people base their beliefs not on what they have evidence for but on what makes them feel good.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
H.L.Mencken
“an attempt at pointing out the way people base their beliefs not on what they have evidence for but on what makes them feel good.”
Kind of like the idea that a pretty 44 year old man with no relevant experience, but a nice voice and given to airy rhetoric, can successfully run the US, with the added evidence that he is one of the 299,999,998 people who are not named George Bush. What more evidence does one need?
Its all very well and good to trot out all these jaundiced studies and whatnot, and yes indeed if I believed what I read in the papers I’d despair for the human race.
But in my daily life, I do not experience this. The people I meet are competent and reasonable. Yes, even in Ontario, land of stupid Liberals.
Every once in a while I meet a stupid person.
They stand out because of their rarity.
So I’m sorry, I can’t get on this bandwagon. I think its true that the media (this guy for example) would like you to -think- everyone is stupid, just like they want you to think Obama is fit to be President. But everybody is stupid? Not buying it.
When people stop believing in God, they believe anything.
“When people believe in God, they’ll believe anything.”
There, fixed that for you.