http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUPMjC9mq5Y&feature=player_embedded
There is not going to be much text in this post because I believe this video says it all. I am sure that the individual interviews and comments in this piece were cherry-picked specifically for their absolute ridiculousness, but I think the point still stands …
We’re dumb. Americans are dumb. And the saddest part is that we don’t want to learn. We’re willfully stupid, and we beg these crackpots and idiots to come and tell us what to think.
Because why learn about your government? Why become educated on the inner workings of congress and the presidency and the judicial branch when someone can fill your brain with fear and propaganda? Why think for yourself and take an educated look at the information that’s being fed to you when you can believe it word for word, no matter how ridiculous it is?
This video is the perfect example of how the Right Wing nut bars are feeding the populace this load of garbage, knowing full well the average American doesn’t know anything except for what he or she is told.
Medicare is socialized medicine.
Communism, Socialism, Totalitarianism, Fascism are all different things … they are not interchangeable.
Czar is just a fancy name that Reagan gave the guy he appointed to lead the “war on drugs” and it stuck.
Obama is a black man living in a nation that is still a majority of white knuckleheads, he is not Hitler. If you want to see the Nazis in action, hold a mirror up to the Right Wing.
But in order to know this, you will have to read and listen and observe and process and think critically, which Americans are clearly not willing to do.
When you’re standing at a rally protesting something and someone asks you detail about what it is you’re protesting and you can’t answer that question, you should be ashamed of yourself … utterly and totally ashamed.
I don’t care if you really believe this $h!t, but if you’re going to make an a$$ out of yourself, at least know enough to answer a simple question about why you’re making an a$$ out of yourself …
Meanwhile, the Right Wing agenda enforcers are sitting back, getting blowjobs from hookers and payola from special interest groups, laughing at how easy it all is … because you redneck, idiot sonsabitches are too stupid and lazy to pick up a F$%KING newspaper.
Cheri said,
September 15, 2009 @ 7:46 pm
Seriously. Before you are allowed to pick up a sign and protest, folks should get educated about the issues. Both sides. That drives me crazy. Know what your protesting, Fool!
cshawdraves said,
September 15, 2009 @ 7:50 pm
Cheri, welcome the Awesomization Nation. Send this to everyone you know.
joel said,
September 15, 2009 @ 7:50 pm
i love the awesomizer! but don’t fall into their trap! while i don’t like what would be revealed by holding a mirror up to our right wing… it would not show Nazism. Hate-mongering and moral intimidation is a far cry systemic genocide. Not all jerks get to be Nazis.
cshawdraves said,
September 15, 2009 @ 7:58 pm
True Joel, true indeed. That line was merely to show the apparent hypocrisy in the Right Wing rhetoric. Yes, they are not Nazis, but if there would be a slide into Fascism, it would not come from the Left. The, let’s say ideals and practices?, of the Right seem to be a little more in line with the ideals and practices of the Nazi party. Anti-gay, anti-immigration, blindly national … the list could go on …
joel said,
September 15, 2009 @ 7:51 pm
from… a far cry from. i need a stenographer.
joel said,
September 15, 2009 @ 8:04 pm
right on conor. i mainly just wanted to say “not all jerks get to be nazis”
Renee Authier said,
September 15, 2009 @ 8:08 pm
Seriously sickening! Couldn’t even watch the whole thing… it saddens me, but explains why students I work with spout some of the same ignorances… I wonder why I have to explain why they need an education and can’t just be a superstar when they reach adulthood. Of course, what good is an education if you don’t use it – or don’t use it long enough to get accurate information. Wisdom can not be reduced to a sound bite.
liv said,
September 15, 2009 @ 8:26 pm
i’ve been scared for our nation a while and now i’m just terrified. i’m all for protesting and speaking your mind, but know your mind before you speak it. ridiculous and sickening.
cass said,
September 15, 2009 @ 8:50 pm
Are you freakin’ kidding me??? I just watched this video after I read your blog–wow…to say the least. Now that I’m actually dumber after witnessing this crap–seriously!! It’s completely disheartening that people who put so much effort into standing up for something– don’t know anything about what they’re standing up for–and the fact that they get other people to believe this filth–completely disgusting!
While I normally laugh this kind of ignorance off– (I figure living in their own bubble of ignorance is usually punishment enough). I can’t do the same when it comes to politics–at least not when our first opportunity of real change is threatened to be taken over by folks that can’t define the ‘isms’ they’re talking about.
Marc said,
October 1, 2009 @ 12:44 am
God bless America …