Are People Blind? Or Just Stupid?

[kuozzman]

http://ignorantusa.tripod.com/

[villager]

1. both, I think

n/t

[alittlelark]

2. I was gonna say the same.

[ArcRabbit]

3. Ditto

nt

[GRLMGC]

4. A little bit from category A

and a little bit from category B. The perfect combination for dumbfuckery

[purduejake]

5. I think they're hungry for blood.

Seriously... they want to bomb the hell out of the countries they don't like. A lot of them think we should start dropping nukes, too. It's sick,

[Melynn]

9. Look at Ann Coulter

Look at what A. Coulter said about nuking N.Korea. And who in the main stream media condemned her for saying that. No one. Anyone from our two political parties condemned Miss Coulter for saying advocating a unilateral surprise nuclear attack on a country. Nope.

Scary times we live in.

[purduejake]

10. Not to mention her calls to bomb the UN...

in NEW YORK!!!

[against all enemies]

19. "Look at Ann Coulter" - that is cruel and unusual punishment and not

allowed under the Constitution. But I'd tell you anything you want so I don't have to look - at those bony knees, that scarecrow face, that poster bitch for eating disorders. Make me do anything but please, NOT look at Ann Coulter.

[Seldona]

6. Do you really have no idea just how offensive that is?

I can assure you being blind has nothing to do with intelligence, or ones ability to recognize what is going on in this country.

How absolutely vulgar and insulting!

:wow: :freak: :wow:

[Nihil]

13. Anything can be offensive if you mis-read it

You are the only person (so far) in this thread that has suggested
that being blind might have anything to do with intelligence.
Please calm down and reconsider for a moment.

The inability to see something may excuse actions based on that
misunderstanding of the circumstances. That is how true blindness
may be an excuse for their behaviour.

The "blindness" that is most apparent in the world today (mainly though
not exclusively in the USA) is the unwillingness to see the evidence
that is before them, not the inability.

There are none so blind as the ones who choose not to see.

I am sure that the poster did not intend offence to those among us who
either suffer from less than brilliant eyesight or care for people thus
affected. Please don't get upset by a comment that is neither vulgar
nor insulting - as long as you read the word "or".

Nihil

[izzie]

7. I said morals was why I voted as I did on that form. For Kerry

I thought every thing Bush was doing was not my morals for an American.

[ShadesOfC]

8. I always thought they were ignorant but....

...my Pops been saying folks are stupid for the last few years and I realized he was right in November.

Seems people prefer to be :scared: Stupid these days, boggles the mind don't it?

[FM Arouet666]

11. How little the human race has changed.

I recall reading about Machiavelli and his greatest literary work 'The Prince' which details the political works of the Medici. In my youth, I pondered how humankind could be so ruthless, and felt comfort in the knowledge that we had changed. Time, education, and experience has shown me the reality of the human beast. Never more relevant with the current administration. Blind, stupid, brutish, selfish, lacking in all moral values. This is the tendency of the human, if not rescued by intellect, education and experience. Sadly, this is common state of the republican, the expression of the most base of human characteristics.

[PassingFair]

18. It's like a freaking Playbook for them.

I, too, was stunned by the reckless amorality of Machiavelli. I, too, took it as a cautionary tale of blind ambition.
Even "The Prince" that it was written to largely ignored its instructions.
Not these puppies.
It's a manual for them.

[Nihil]

12. Not blind, just unwilling to see ...

... and that defines them as stupid.

[Skidmore]

14. My mom used to say...

there are none so blind as those who will not see.

[LynnTheDem]

15. Yes.

Most especially the freepo-fascist rightwingnuts.

[xchrom]

16. willfully stupid.

america{ns} have a long history of brutality that we edit out of our history.
we don't deny slavery per se -- we deny that it should have any effect either on the perpetrators and descendants or the victims and theirs.
we don't deny phony wars in the phillipines -- we deny the caualties -- etc.
few countries have been as good as ours at psychologically burying our brutal history and tendencies.

[mrbill]

17. blind, stupid or scared?

that evil menace shit really works.

fear is a great motivating factor and the assholes in charge play it like a drum.

[sendero]

20. Scared..

... and willing to believe that someone has an easy answer for their problem.

Eventually, they will find the easy answers to just be creators of bigger problems, and gradually, you'll see Americans wake up to reality.

It is already happening with the polls showing most Americans don't think the Iraq war was "worth it".