Four Examples, and about 12 Sub-Examples, proving that Americans are too Stupid to be Permitted to Vote
By
David Gottfried
Since I have been accused of tending to write in an extravagant, flowery and supercilious style well over the heads of swinish, sluggish Americans whose heads are firmly implanted in the anuses of their disgustingly fat asses, I will try to get right to the point: The American people are too stupid to make political judgments and therefore are unqualified to cast ballots in elections.
Examples establishing that Americans don’t know what the hell is going on and are too intellectually immature to vote:
1) George Bush’s Gulf War Two:
George Bush walloped John Kerry in 2004 in large measure because doltish Americans thought that by attacking Iraq he was defending us against the culprits responsible for the carnage of 9/11.
A) Many Americans thought that Iraq had to be guilty because it was in cahoots with Iran which they all knew was guilty of just about everything. They saw Iraq as being in cahoots with Iran notwithstanding that:
i) Largely Arab Iraq and almost uniformly Persian Iran have been at loggerheads since roughly the 7 th century when Islam split into the rival Sunni and Shiite camps
ii) In the 1980’s, Iran and Iraq suffered about 500,000 deaths because of an inane war fought between the two nations
But of course this was too much information to be stored in the itty bitty brains of Americans. I think my compatriots reasoned as follows: Both Iran and Iraq are Muslim, both nation states begin with the letter I -- ergo Iran and Iraq are one and the same thing.
I am sure that most Americans don’t know that Iran is called Iran for reasons that are flukish and really downright stupid. Iran used to be known as Persia. However, Adolf Hitler, seeking to get allies in the Muslim world, told the Shah of Iran (An ancestor of the very shah the USA had supported in the post war era) that his people were related to the Aryan race and hence was a superior race (Of course, the Aryans are often thought of as blond haired and blue eyed, and most Iranians don’t have blond hair, but Nazis, like their Trumper offspring, had a predilection for conjuring-up ideas that are singularly bereft of Logic) . The Shah was quite thrilled upon hearing, from Uncle Adolf, that he was the leader of a superior race. His linguists decided that the word Aryan’s equivalent in Farsi, the language of Iran, was Iran and henceforth Persia was known as Iran.
B) Iran was Shiite, and Osama Bin Ladin was Sunni, and Iran despised Osama Bin Ladin. Indeed, allies of Iran were very active, in Afghanistan, in fighting forces affiliated with the Taliban
C) Iraq was Sunni, as was Osama Bin Ladin, but the Baathists who governed Iraq found Osama Bin Ladin vile because the Baathists tended to be secular and often socialistic whereas Osama was a reactionary who shared the Hitlerite contempt for Marxism, modernism and science.
George Bush won in 2004. Because we were fighting muslims in an almost indiscriminate way, lumping Shiites and Sunnis and Baathists and Medievalists together, we united millions of people, who were rent by their own ancient and enduring tribal feuds, together, and they became united against us.
We made a similar mistake in Vietnam. The communist world was fractured between those communists who sided with China and those communists whose allegiance was to Moscow. However, as long as we mercilessly bombed Indochina, we kept the communists together, and both the USSR and Communist China faithfully gave aid to North Vietnam.
The pro war factions in this country always said that the American peace movement was aiding the communists, but it was the other way around.
As long as we bombed North Vietnam, and much of South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, the schism in the communist world was suppressed. (Most political analysts agree that both China and Russia wanted Richard Nixon to win the 1972 election even though Mc Govern was the peace candidate. Very simply, Russia and China feared that once the Americans left Indochina, the communists would proceed to destroy one another. This analysis was borne out by the Moscow’s decision not to cancel a summit planned with Nixon in May 1972. Many people thought that Moscow would surely cancel because the US had mined Haiphong Harbor, impeding the transit of Soviet goods to North Vietnam, in response to the lesser Tet Offensive of 1972. However, the Soviets feared peace with the Americans and wanted Nixon to win.)
The communists were together in much the same way as Moscow and Washington were together in fighting the malevolence emanating from the behemoth that was Berlin. However, as soon as we withdrew from Vietnam, Communist Unity unraveled. Pro Soviet Vietnam invaded pro Chinese Cambodia. In January 1979, China invaded Vietnam. By February 1979, Soviet and Chinese divisions faced off across their very long border and both nations ordered “nuclear alerts.” From the salons of the left bank of Paris to the slums of Hong Kong, Marxism lost its luster.
2) The completely misunderstood Deficit
.
Economists have known, since the publication of Keynes’ “General Theory of Interest and Money” in 1936, that deficit spending stimulates economic growth. Of course, too much can be inflationary (although a new breed of economists is even challenging this certitude), but in the right doses it’s just what the doctor ordered.
However most Americans, like virgins condemning sex, have an almost Puritanical hatred of deficit spending, deeming it indicative of sloth, decadence and degradation. Moreover, they are so completely confused by the issue that they condemn democrats for any and all deficits while they wholly ignore Republican deficits.
But let me go from the abstract to the concrete, and I’ll prove my point that Americans are wholly at the mercy of the propaganda pelted at them and are fooled most of the time:
A) In 1980, the federal deficit was about 40 billion dollars. The brainless American people, believing Ronald Reagan’s bullshit, reasoned that the deficit was why the economy had soured. (In large measure, our economic problems had been engendered by a doubling of gas prices in the wake of the Iranian revolution, the inflation instigated by higher fuel costs, and the Federal Reserve’s application of traditional conservative republican measures to combat inflation, namely a spike in the discount rate which made the GDP plummet).
B) Reagan was elected and that arch critic of deficits promptly more than quadrupled the deficit. However, the senescent and senile body politic of America did not seem to realize that Reagan administered the very deficits that had been championed by men like Ted Kennedy, whom they pilloried as a communist etc etc.
C) When Obama took office, the nation was in a tailspin occasioned by the deceit and duplicitousness of the oligarchy of Wall Street. All responsible economists knew that huge deficits were in order. Obama gave us somewhat healthy deficits, but they were not as large as they should have been. (Of course, because of the tendency of Democrats to fight with one hand tied behind their back --- maybe it’s because the leaders of the Democratic Party are as rich as republicans and are on the side of Conservative Republicans == Obama apologized for our deficits. He should have said: I gave you deficits because that’s exactly what we need. Obama should have done what Roosevelt did: He should have appeared on TV and tried to educate the American people, i.e., he should have given those Seminars for the people, given by FDR, that are infinitely better than today’s meaningless soundbites)
D) Because Obama did not give us the sort of blockbuster deficits the economic debacle required, the economy did not revive with sufficient speed, the deindustrialization of the heartland proceeded apace, and Donald Trump won in 2016.
E) Donald Trump’s rise was commensurate with, and was in league with, the Tea Party. The tea party’s most scathing criticism of Obama centered on his allegedly outlandish deficits. And Donald Trump, who castigated Obama for allegedly irresponsible deficits, gave us deficits so gargantuan as to make Reagan’s deficits seem as momentous as the ripples of a tiny pebble thrown in a little stream. Of course, the tea party, who railed against Obama for his supposedly stupendous deficits, did not seem to notice Trump’s towering deficits. But these fools have no memory, are devoid of a single coherent thought, they only know how to chant and pump their fists. At a recent Trump rally, Trump alluded to Hillary Clinton and the mob spent the next three minutes chanting, “Lock Her Up.” They are as barbarous and bastardly as Hitlerite hordes chanting, “Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer.” (One rule, one people, one leader)
3) Federal Regulations:
Hitler knew that a lie, repeated with sufficient frequency, soon is accepted as gospel truth. Fox News knows this too.
Americans have been hoodwinked by the con job that overzealous regulators have emasculated business. They are deaf, dumb and blind to something that the supposedly liberal media never tells them but that smart economists have known since 1957.
In 1957, in “The Affluent Society,” John Kenneth Galbraith examined the relationship between business and government regulators and he concluded that regulators are not ganging up on business. Rather, business has colonized regulating agencies to ensure that they do their bidding. Look at it in terms of salaries: A scientist working for a drug company will have a salary twice as big as the scientist at the lowly FDA. Ergo, the people at the FDA bend over backwards for business so they can switch jobs.
A) Some republicans with midget minds have told me that I should be pro business, and anti regulation, because they believe that pharmaceutical companies have saved my life because I rely on meds to combat AIDS. But they don’t know that our most important breakthroughs regarding AIDS, and almost everything else, came about not because of business, but because of scientists on the payroll of Uncle Sam.
For example, the first anti-retroviral used against AIDS was AZT, also known as Retrovir, and also known as zidovudine. (Every drug has about three different names and the veritable metastasis of names creates the impression that science has produced more goodies for the gullible public than it really has.)
AZT was synthesized in 1964, some 17 years before the US Center for Disease Control published a report to the effect that large numbers of gay men were coming down with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (one of the prime opportunistic infections associated with AIDS).
The drug was produced not by a drug company. It was synthesized by a scientist, who was employed by the Federal Government, to look for a cure for cancer.
Since the drug was financed by taxpayer dollars, the taxpayers and the government should be the rightful owners of AZT. But the FDA, like most arms of the government, has a slavish, submissive relationship with big business. The FDA agreed that Burroughs Welcome, as a reward for rounding up guinea pigs for the clinical trials, would get the patent for AZT. Burroughs Welcome became the legal owner of AZT and it promptly set the price, in 1986 or 1987, when the drug became commercially available, at an annual cost of about 14,000 a year. Of course, if you are listening to television news programs, as do most American assholes, empty-headed air heads every last one of them, you will hear some gray flannel old man, or some colorfully dressed Fox News bimbo who has ideas which are, in their conformity and conservatism, uniformly gray flannel, say that the company is entitled to charge a fortune for the drug to recoup its research and development expenses. Of course, the asshole television commentator won’t tell you that AZT was synthesized thanks to government financing.
B) There are many other examples which demonstrate that business is under-regulated, and I refer you a recent article of mine on substack: https://davidgottfried.substack.com/p/remember-the-florida-building-collapse
C) Government intervention in the economy, far from hobbling business, has catered to and enriched big business every step of the way:
i) The Government built the Erie Canal. This enabled farmers, from Ohio and Pennsylvania, to export agricultural products to Europe. It is much easier to ship products on boat, on a canal, that it is to ship products from midwestern Ohio by horseback (When the Canal was built, we did not yet have locomotives) hundreds of miles to the Atlantic coast. With the development of the Erie Canal, farmers could bring their goods to a port on Lake Erie, and it was smooth sailing all the way to Europe: The Erie canal took the products to the Hudson River, and merchandize sent down the Hudson was easily be transferred, in New York City, to boats going to Europe.
The Erie Canal is responsible for the most dramatic demographic and economic changes in American and Europe: America flooded Europe with cheaper produce, millions of European peasants were forced off the land, and hordes of impoverished European peasants brought down the price of labor in this country. Meanwhile, America, awash in the money earned by selling so much produce to Europe, bought more machine tools from Europe and these became the rudiments of the embryonic Industrial powerhouse that was American manufacturing.
ii) Similarly, the railroads were built not by Cornelious Vanderbilt and other imperious monarchs of the New York financial elite but by the United States Government.
It takes a lot of land to build and run a railroad. A company will need land for railroad stations, land for thousands of miles of tracks, land on either side of thousands of miles of tracks and land for railroad yards. No railroad company in this country ever spent a penny on buying or renting land. The land was provided free of charge, or at a nominal fee, by the Federal Government.
But the American people are convinced that all government intervention in the economy constitutes a noose on business, and the benighted fools weep for wall street tycoons as if the CEO’s were poverty stricken Spanish Sufridas struggling to find a few kernels of rice with which to make the family meal.
4) Since Americans are stupid in almost all facets of life, we shouldn’t expect them to be anything other than stupid in the political sphere.
A) Stupidity in their knowledge of American history:
Forty percent of American High School Juniors don’t know what century the civil war was fought in. I knew someone with a BA degree from the State University of New York who thought that the Great Depression was in the 1950’s, (He was an English major, and he cannot write a single grammatically correct sentence. Ah, but his goals were so much loftier and precious as his sub-major was creative writing.) Of course, most Americans cannot get it through their thick skulls that Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union
B) Stupidity in the assessment of risk.
Although American students are taught percentages in the Fourth Grade, by the time they are Forty they are still not able to apply this knowledge in real life. A few weeks ago, it was reported that a few women had gotten serious adverse reactions to the Covid vaccine. The probability of this adverse reaction, in adult women, was about 1 in one million. Although everything entails some risk – when you cross a street you can get killed by a passing car – and although there are plenty of harms that are more common that one in one million, many Americans are “spooked” by vaccines for Covid.
Given the intellectual regression taking place in this country, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if in a few decades America will become ravaged by polio, pertussis and, one of these days, smallpox.
C) Stupidity in Religion or Honey, I done just lost 50 pounds on a Jesus diet.
About a decade ago, the New York Times reported on a book title that was a smash hit throughout Dixie: “How I lost 50 pounds on a Jesus diet.” I don’t condemn people for believing in a faith. Rather, I condemn the way in which they believe in their assorted faiths. They heed their faiths with all the sophistication of little children listening to their teacher.
In this country, athletes see fit to pray before a game. Why do you think God would give a damn about your silly little game? G-d ignored the murder of Armenians slaughtered by Turks in 1915 , ignored the Biafrans slaughtered by their fellow Nigerians in the late 60’s and ignored the slaughter of the Jews during the Holocaust, but the impudent, upstart, imbeciles of the Huckshuck Huckabee dumb Ass Georgia football team know that G-d will give them a touchdown. Of course, the morons from Dixie will have an answer for me: the Armenians, the Biafrans and the Jews were not G-d’s anointed as they were not Protestant. But I guess they forget about the Huguenots, the Protestant minority of France. When the Catholics tyrants of the ancien regime massacred the Huguenots, the Huguenots no doubt prayed as obedient Protestants are supposed to pray, and they were burnt alive just the same.
But I am an ecumenical atheist. I condemn all religious groups with equal fervor. My fellow Jews, and my Catholic friends, have tried to tell me that they believe in their respective faiths, that their belief is genuine yada yada yada.
However, almost all Jews, Muslims and Catholics forget the salient truth that makes their claims of faith and belief rubbish:
99 percent of Jews, Muslims and Catholics are in their faiths not because they believe in them but because that’s what they were born into. If you are a Muslim, the curses your mother directed at Hindus, Jews and Christians were something you accepted as readily as your Mother’s milk. If you are a Jew, you are a Jew because of our abundant history of constant persecution, dismemberment and murder, and we cling to our faith not because we really believe shellfish is an abomination but because we hate the people who killed our grandmother in a Nazi death camp. If you are a Catholic it is because you loved Christmas time, and you learned to hate the Jews for killing Baby Jesus, and the ceremonies, incense and incantations of the Latin Mass mesmerized you into abject submission.