Reply #165: Not another "sheeple" accusation [View All]

[pampango]

I bothers me when I see posters refer to voters as "sheeple" or "stupid lumps". I have heard Republicans refer to Democratic voters as uneducated idiots.

My guess is that the US has a bell curve distribution of intelligence and gullibility, as does any other country. My hope is that we would either figure out a strategy for appealing to the uninformed or educate them on the issues we consider important. Let us not call the electorate names when the other side successfully appeals to or "educates" them.

It strikes me as elitist to for them to call our voters "uneducated idiots" or us to call their voters "sheeple." For our democracy to work everyone's vote has to count the same, not just those who are more informed and " with the program."

AND what if Gore or Kerry were the president now and was trying to prevent Iran from developing nuclear power/weapons (maybe everything would be different and Iran wouldn't want to, but what if). The Republicans were touting Ahmadinejad. Wouldn't we be pointing out all of his idiotic statements, religious intolerance, and support for Sharia law as reasons to oppose him?