Oh my How much STUPIDER can america get?

[kilojoule]

..

[trab]

Well, I think the political candidates should be able to hand out money to voters at the polls on election day.
Just get to the point. Why are special interest lobiests the only ones to get a piece!
The billions spent on advertizing could be beter spent in direct bribes to voters.
Make it fun. Serve beer and burgers.

[slummin]

A certain portion of the population will always be stupid.

as you demonstrate.

[onlyme]

How's this for distribution of stupidity...

TA, Goodbum, Daddywaddy, Shifted Shapes.

All from North Carolina.

and thats just the ones we know about

[Bear]

How's this for distribution of stupidity...

TA, Goodbum, Daddywaddy, Shifted Shapes.

All from North Carolina.

Nile are from South Carolina

[efirkey]

Well, I think the political candidates should be able to hand out money to voters at the polls on election day.
Just get to the point. Why are special interest lobiests the only ones to get a piece!
The billions spent on advertizing could be beter spent in direct bribes to voters.
Make it fun. Serve beer and burgers.

I just read the book "The Jungle"  and that's exactly what they did back in the early 1900s.  The politicians would have big parties and give away money and free booze in trade for votes.

[No Patience]

Not true at all.  Too many vairables involved.  Religion is the most responsible for ignorance though.

DING DING DING!!!!!!

thank you TA....i get so sick of people talking about made up shit like they KNOW it is true
and that i am ignorant for not believing it, or going to hell...blah blah...

i just laugh and tell them:

god is just like santa claus and the tooth fairy, but your parents forgot to tell you he isn't real

[daddy8ball]

WTF is this shit? 

Everyone knows the sun revolves around the earth. 

[efirkey]

I believe the universe revolves around me and I'm american.

[Cavalier22]

the whole world is very very ignorant. so what

[trab]

I just read the book "The Jungle"  and that's exactly what they did back in the early 1900s.  The politicians would have big parties and give away money and free booze in trade for votes.

Ya, in Thailand they still pay for votes... AND BUS THEM TO THE POLS ! Give 'em a nice meaal too!
They bus them in from the poor north areas. Talk about Popular politics.
Thats why the millitary threw the pres out. Total crook.

[kyomu]

the whole world is very very ignorant. so what

You are right. There are many countries which are worse than america about this.

[Archer77]

the whole world is very very ignorant. so what

Then never bitch about a thing in life ever again.  The way people behave and all the actions that follow are now subject to a complete blackout on criticism.
Lets all just be stupid. Anybody ever wrong another on a personal level, well I guess that is just fine.

[kyomu]

yeah, when I was in Sunday School they taught us that the sun revolves around the Earth.

Oh really? Thanx god for not being born in the rural american village...

[Big Worm]

1 in 5 Americans believe Sun revolves around the Earth

A light bulb appears over my head. I finally get it.

For the democratic process to run properly it necessitates the voter to have some knowledge of what he is voting on.  For it to work properly it requires voters to cast their votes based on an educated opinion.  If you are going to vote on something like stem cell research you should at least know what it is, correct?

Sadly, that isn’t how many American vote, as is obvious when during an election year people are talking about whether or not someone “looks presidential” and whether the person looks “likeable”. Well the question is, how can Americans vote on such things as global warming, stem cell research, cloning and what have you when basic scientific fundamental concepts fly right over our heads.

"American adults in general do not understand what molecules are (other than that they are really small). Fewer than a third can identify DNA as a key to heredity. Only about 10 percent know what radiation is. One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth, an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century." Said Jon D. Miller, a political scientists who directs the Center for Biomedical Communications at the Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, he regularly surveys Americans for his clients which include the National Science Foundation on the public’s knowledge and attitudes towards science in general.I mean, lets be honest, if you don’t know what a fucking cell is how can you understand what stem cell research is enough to vote on it?

And according to this guy most Americans don’t know what a cell is. Then it hit me.  There is a reason why people are fighting so hard to get creationism taught in the public schools along side evolution as a scientific alternative. Like I said, it hit me. And it hit me hard.

Americans, on top of not having a clue what a cell is or what radiation is or even that the Earth revolves around the Sun are letting religious leaders dictate to them what to vote on issues that would take knowledge of basic scientific fundamentals, because I am assuming that they are assuming that since these religious leaders are supposedly moral and ethical “authorities” they should be qualified to figure out where we stand on these scientific issues, but who is to say that they even know these basic scientific concepts?

What a dangerous misstep.

Fact: Polls show that in general, people who adhere to fundamentalist views are not well educated.

Those things go hand in hand. He says that every time he goes on the radio to talk about his findings he gets people from the listening area sending him cards in the mail saying that they will pray for him. So I take it even though they don’t understand what he is talking about when he refers to “DNA” they know that people that use big words like that are most likely going to hell.

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Source: Scientific Savvy? In U.S., Not Much, New York Times, August 30, 2005

As dumb as all this seems? It's not dumber then throwing pics of yourself up on the net with a MAN!!!