Ignorance, incompetence and indifference

[Road Scholar]

Our enemy is, was and always will be, ignorance, incompetence, and indifference.

The incompetence of course are those who are not aware of the plight of their surroundings . They think everything is ok, and they do not understand their situation.

The indifferent, of course just don't care.

By ignorance, I do not mean uneducated. Some of the most ignorant people I have ever met have been well educated people. For some reason, they believe their education is proof of their intelligence and success. They are arrogant and somewhat narcissistic. They somehow believe that their opinion is more valuable than any others. They are the most dangerous because the incompetent and ignorant believe them without question.Carl Rove, Dick Cheny, Rush Limbaugh, James Dobson, just to name a few.


Since exactly 1/2 of all the voters are below average, this includes some of the indifferent and all of the incompetent and most of the arrogant.

I give you the Self Righteous Charismatic wing of the Republican Party. They have driven the rest of the Republican party into a shamble. Give them all the rope you can.

[styersc]

1. If the ignorant, incompetent and indifferent have driven the GOP

into a shambles, aren't they the opposite of our enemy?

I think we owe them a great big "thanks and keep it up".

[Road Scholar]

2. You make my point. Thank you.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Thought this was a Thesaurus entry of synonyms for "Republican"

[Echo In Light]

4. A finer aspect of the dilemma is how very bright, learned people can simultaneously be ignorant of..

...other topics/issues. But if one presents and speaks well, has credentials, has the reputation of being a sharp individual, etc, many will - and I believe there was a thread here re research on this very subject some weeks back - tune out their deductive reasoning skills.

This in my view plays a substantial role in the social momentum of disavowing and/or attacking "conspiracy theories" in general, including acknowledging the corruption of the two-party system.

It works because in many instances, in order for one to be successful within a given profession, it requires not thinking certain thoughts that would not be conducive to institutional/professional advancement. Hence any data or analysis that doesn't fit neatly into the required background assumptions is dismissed ... and couple that with a host of psychological goodies, and how corporate America controls the populace via 'perception management,' and it's easy to see how and why it works the way it does here.

[Mike 03]

5. Ignorance for sure, and lately, incompetence too.

I wish I could agree on Indifference.

Indifference? Obviously, no--this is their strong point. They do care, and they spend billions of dollars convincing people to agree with them. I'm not even sure they are incompetent. Look how many times they beat us when we had the stronger, more ethical, more qualified, more moral candidate?

The Repukes have run this country for the past eight years, and prior to Bill Clinton, the twelve before that, and they have even accomplished the task of having poor and lower middle class people vote for them AGAINST THEIR OWN BEST INTERESTS.

So I would be worried about making a pretentious pronouncement like this.

We, as Democrats, still have much work to do. Bush was RE-ELECTED. We can't forget that shocking and horrifying fact.

We can't get too comfortable that things have changed. We have to pretend they have not and keep fighting.

Or else, the the next twelve years from 2012 to 2024 could be like the Regan/Bush I years all over again.

ON EDIT:

For clarification and reiteration: We cannot ever afford to be this cocky because we won this election, during a financial calamity, and against a weak, almost ludicrous, opponent.

[Oregone]

6. How about cynicism?

The more I read, the more cynical I get. The more cynical I get, the more indifferent I want to be. The more indifferent I seek to be, the less I read. The less I read, the more ignorant and incompetent I become.

Hm, maybe reading is the enemy!