On 2012-08-12, Ashton Crusher > wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:11:56 +0000 (UTC), Brent
> wrote:
>
>>On 2012-08-12, Ashton Crusher > wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone who needs a definition of stupidity need only look to the US
>>> Congress for stupidity in spades. Not to mention graft, corruption,
>>> insider dealing, etc, etc etc.
>>
>>There's nothing stupid about what they do from their point of view. If
>>you haven't noticed those in congress and those close to congress keep
>>getting more wealthy and gaining more power. Nothing stupid about it wrt
>>their personal gain.
>>
>
> That's true, there's no question that it's not just individual
> stupidity, many of them are quite bright individually. But
> collectively they are as dumb as a bag of rocks. Rather then get this
> country on track to come up from being number 24 in the world in
> education, they just have endless fights over whether evolution or
> creationism should be taught in schools. Or trying to control women's
> bodies, and on and on with their pet idiotic views of things that they
> want to institutionalize.

Collectively those in and close to the government grow more wealthy as
we grow poorer. They are not dumb even collectively. Part of being able
to pull that off is keeping people distracted with various dramas.