Well, paint rose colored glasses on me then.

Yes, the majority are that stupid, whether you refuse to believe it or not.

Humans are pack animals. What that means is that the vast majority have to be followers, not leaders. Followers want simple beliefs handed to them as "received wisdom", to be certain they are RIGHT, without having to think about it, at all. They look to "leaders" to provide that. A leader waving an ancient "sacred book" as authority is the best kind.

There are plenty of would be "leaders" who are more than happy to provide thoughts for the unthinking. Hitler was one of the most successful, picking on any and all minorities equally, but many pulpits host a "leader" with similar ambitions, and a willing flock. For many others, TV and radio shows are their pulpit, for the same ambition, and to a larger, but just as willing flock.

Minorities are convenient targets for the rabble rousers, and the only counter is for minorities to show power and determination sufficient to look dangerous. That's what "Task Forces" are for.

Post #391,073 by mmoffitt 6/22/14 8:06:42 PM Reply	Well, paint rose colored glasses on me then. That's the way I was raised. Do I know that in the 1960's we didn't live in that world? Hell yes, I do. I routinely got my ass kicked (in Southern California no less) when my dad's best friend and his family (a Black family) came to visit us in lily-white Lakewood, CA. I rejected that idiocy then (despite my bruises) and I reject it now. I refuse to believe the majority are that stupid.
Post #391,075 by Andrew Grygus 6/22/14 8:36:32 PM Reply	Where did you get that idea? Yes, the majority are that stupid, whether you refuse to believe it or not. Humans are pack animals. What that means is that the vast majority have to be followers, not leaders. Followers want simple beliefs handed to them as "received wisdom", to be certain they are RIGHT, without having to think about it, at all. They look to "leaders" to provide that. A leader waving an ancient "sacred book" as authority is the best kind. There are plenty of would be "leaders" who are more than happy to provide thoughts for the unthinking. Hitler was one of the most successful, picking on any and all minorities equally, but many pulpits host a "leader" with similar ambitions, and a willing flock. For many others, TV and radio shows are their pulpit, for the same ambition, and to a larger, but just as willing flock. Minorities are convenient targets for the rabble rousers, and the only counter is for minorities to show power and determination sufficient to look dangerous. That's what "Task Forces" are for.
Post #391,085 by a6l6e6x 6/22/14 11:15:01 PM Reply	Right on, bro! Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov

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