Mar14
The Public State Of Ignorance
on March 14, 2013 at 3:19 pmSarah Hoyt says we should hope that more people don’t feel the need to become politically aware.
Sarah Hoyt says we should hope that more people don’t feel the need to become politically aware.
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I have a long running debate going with a friend who says there aren’t enough Americans who care, to ‘take back’ the country if it was to come to that. He also thinks that 80% to 90% of gun owners would let the government take their guns. I don’t think it would g that high, I think 50% would.
I’ve crunched this back and forth, using that 3% as a number to ‘achieve’, and I don’t get there. However, I think that, God forbid we devolve to that point, people who gave up guns to stave off a government gone completely mad, would get re-involved. And the truly bad part is that I think many in the military would turn against the government, and not just the lower ranks.
That’s a military coup, and I simply cannot think of a worse place to be nor can I imagine how in the world we could have EVER gotten (t)here.
In a similar way to Pelosi saying we’d have to pass it to know what’s in it; We will have to live through it to find out how bad it’s going to be.
It’s systemic and world wide and the cliff isn’t in front of us, it’s behind us. We’re already falling, but being in the clouds it doesn’t seem that bad. Just wait until the mob figures it out.
All the while, they don’t need to know anything to vote the way the media wants them to.
I don’t mind people who aren;t into politics. That’s their right.
Where I draw the line is when the ignorant vote. That’s doing active damage at all levels. It’s stuff like this that’s caused me, since high school, to detest “get out the vote” campaigns of any sort.
If a person isn’t knowledgeable and interested enough in politics to go vote, then don’t! Pushing the uninformed to the polls is madness. We should be making voting less convenient, not moreso.
In almost every other field of human endeavor, we try to keep people who don’t know what the hell they are doing from doing it. We don’t let people with no knowledge of what they are doing take the controls of a ship, a weapons system, a spacecraft, or a nuclear reactor. We don’t let people who don’t know how to fly take the controls of planes, etc, etc.
But when it comes to the greatest responsibility of all, determining the fate of our nation, we not only tolerate but encourage the uninformed to take the controls.
This is madness, and such things never end well.
Amen.
Rock the vote = felony?
And that is why Obama was running ads on Adult Swim.
Happy Resist Tyranny Day!! (Ides of March)