What's scarier than Halloween? For me it's the amount of stupidity in our country. A recent Daily Kos diary was titled, "You Can't Quarantine Stupidity!" It referred to #Ebola and unconstitutional health policy.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/29/1340195/-You-Can-t-Quarantine-Stupid-Ebola-Unconstitutional-Health-Policy The diary detailed all the incredibly stupid moves authorities have made in dealing with and politicizing the issue.
But, this level of stupid abounds in most every area of public discourse. If you read the comment sections on any popular news article, your head will explode from the ignorance that people will publish. On Facebook, everyday I see mostly right wing dummies posting lies and conspiracy theories that one would think most people could easily dispute. Yet, it seems they share them and never bother to check the validity.
When a Freewood Press or New Yorker satire article is posted, just watch everyone jump in with their two cents of outrage! Whatever happened to critical thinking? Does anyone ever question what they read or do most just accept it because it's printed so it must be true?
That is what I find scarier than anything else. And it's because stupid people can be easily manipulated into mobs of hate. We must fight the stupid and do our best to abolish it. Call out the dummies. Give them facts and then move on. You know the saying, "You can't fix Stupid!" Well, I think we have to try. We owe it to our country and to future generations.
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