Republican Politicians Are Paid To Be Stupid

[GoLeft TV]

A new poll shows that a majority of Republicans in America believe that climate change is real. So why are we left with Republican leadership telling us that the whole thing is just a hoax? The answer is that the fossil fuel industry is paying our politicians to be stupid.

Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

[randys1]

1. Premeditated murder is what I call it

[Plucketeer]

2. Most certainly - what's alleged is true

But make NO mistake, there were a BUNCH of these folks (if not all) that were inherently stupid well before they ever SAW their first petro-dollar! I won't go into what these dunces reflect of those who voted them to DC. Their constituents have to be a mix of low IQs and determined apathy to get them elected.

[Human101948]

3. "His salary depends on his not understanding it.”

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”


― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

[Unemperor Justinian]

4. I think they're actually PROUD of it!

[Enthusiast]

5. It's really pretty simple. They're being paid to be stupid. It works!