Six years after the 9/11 terror attacks on the U.S., it seems the media still have some educational work to do. A new CBS/New York Times poll reveals that even today, 1 in 3 Americans believe that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
J H Christ this is beyond depressing. Of course 1 in 3 Americans get their "news" from the Fox Opinion Network so what are we to expect.
However depressing this is it still suggests that the human stupidity quotient in this country is out of control. Long ago in a galaxy far away, my ex wife (who was then my wife) and I had a conversation about the future of the country. What prompted the conversation was watching three clowns in pick up trucks driving their race cars out of the trailer court along the Red Cedar River in my home town of Rice Lake Wisconsin. Each of the trucks these people drove were worth more than the trailers they lived in and certainly the amount of time and expense they put into making their race cars viable was more than what their homes were worth.
As we watched them leave the trailer court, Ruth said that, in the long run, it was a mistake for us to practice zero population growth because if intelligent people confined themselves to two children while the stock car crowd continued to breed like rabbits, soon the nation and the world would be fucked.
That conversation took place 30 years ago last July. The news presented in this post confirms that what Ruth prophesized 30 years ago has come true. We are fucked.
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The level of stupidity has reached a synthesis: it's "Osaddam bin Ladin" who is our enemy now. This proper noun came sincerely and straight out of a Presbyterian minister's mouth during a sermon last week, without any hesitation.
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