Topic: Out of Flyover Land
"How can 59,054,087 people be so dumb?"
Some Europe newspapers less than enthusiastic about Bush re-election

LONDON (AP) -- Many British newspapers cast impartiality aside in reporting the re-election of U.S. President George W. Bush.
"How can 59,054,087 people be so dumb?" asked the Daily Mirror, a liberal tabloid that opposed the war in Iraq. Inside, several pages of coverage were headed "U.S. election disaster."

Here at home there was also dismay expressed in some corners.

The unteachable ignorance of the red states.
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Why Americans Hate Democrats?A Dialogue

"The history of the last four years shows that red state types, above all, do not want to be told what to do?they prefer to be ignorant. As a result, they are virtually unteachable.
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Some of the Mantras of the 60s were,

Power to the People, Raise the Consciousness of the Masses,
Empower the Electorate!

There were some unspoken, and maybe even subconscious assumptions in those days. After all was said and done. they achieved their aims, the Masses did become aroused and entered more fully into the Maelstrom of politics.

That is when the unspoken assumptions hit a brick wall. You see, the Masses were supposed to do what they were told to do by their "betters", those more spiritual, more nuanced, more culturally sophisticated. But it turned out some of the masses had different ideas, and it JUST WASN'T FAIR!!!

You can hear the wailing, rending of clothes and gnashing of teeth even now.

You see some of the masses thought not wanting to do what they were told and being ignorant were not the same thing at all. But to the Liberals who feel betrayed, if we were not "ignorant", then we WOULD do what they told us to do.

I have news for them. We really do NOT like being
"told" what to do, but even more than that if you get in our face and tell us we are "dumb" or "unteachable ignorant"?

You will have our FULL ATTENTION, and as Yamamoto pointed out, that is not always such a wise thing to do, "to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."



Michael Moore had a lot of confidence in Americans he called "slackers". He said, "The slacker motto is: 'Sleep till noon, drink beer, vote Kerry November 2,'" Moore quipped. "Pick nose, pick butt, pick Kerry," he added to applause. "Slackers of the world, unite!"

I do believe his Kerry slackers slept past noon or maybe had too much beer. They did not make it to the Polls.

This attitude is not new at all to the Democrats. In the 1840 Election

The Democrats then stumbled into a bad trap.
One of their newspapers ridiculed Harrison as a dull rustic: "Give him a barrel of hard (alcoholic) cider and settle a pension of two thousand a year on him, and take my word for it, he will sit the remainder of his days in his log cabin."


THAT got the common man's attention and won the Election for William Henry Harrison. One group of Whig party members pushed a ten foot, paper and tin ball emblazoned with pro-Harrison slogans for hundreds of miles. Others handed out whiskey in log cabin-shaped bottles supplied by the E.C. Booz distillery. (Thus came two additions to the American vocabulary: "keep the ball rolling" and "booze.")


I have an idea, we need to do something to thank Michael Moore, how about everyone picking their nose and mailing what you end up with to him?