WTF is happening to Americans?

[Randall Flagg]

I'm sure most of us have seem the Daily Kos poll that shows that most republicans think that Obama is a Socialist, ought to be impeached (for what???), isn't a natural born citizen and stalks around at night eating the dreams of children.

I mean really? I've been around a while and have never seen a political clime like this. It will take a "super majority" to pass anything. If Obama goes with a bill that the Republicans help craft, they will suddenly be against it. If Obama said that if a vote passed that cancer would be cured, the Republicans would vote against it.

Is Faux news, Rus, Hannity, Beck that influential that it is causing so many to throw their brains in the toilet and go "DUH!" and take to the streets? Or, as a society, has America become SO FUCKING STUPID that they can go like lemmings and destroy our constitution for the corporations?

I ask again: wtf is happening to Americans?


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[spanone]

1. old-fashioned racism

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. Elementary, dear Watson.

You got it in one.

[Tim01]

7. Sure. Like Hillary Clinton would have had a cake walk. nt

[Hello_Kitty]

10. Or Joe Biden. Though I do think both racism and sexism play a big role in GOP ignorance-mongering.

[pscot]

16. Good old-fashioned stupidity

Half the population have IQ's under 100. They're barely capable of coherent thought.

[spanone]

20. naw, they'd had been as sexist as they are well, you know

[Tim01]

26. Why can't you handle the fact that conservatives don't like liberal ideas? nt

[BeFree]

9. Yep

Racism and a viral mix of anti-anything liberal.
For eight years they had their way. We liberals were the pinko-commie America haters just because we saw bushco clearly. As "The emperor with no clothes".

They hate us. And now we outnumber them. And we have what appears to them as a liberal do-gooder as president. And they hate the fact that we can and do say: We told you so.

It was never easy being liberal in the good ol' USA, and now that we are out front they be nippin' at our heels. Get used to it -it ain't gonna get better any time soon.

[Skink]

2. Corn Syrup.

it's in everything.

[Zoeisright]

13. LOL!

Nice.

[conscious evolution]

25. +1

[rucky]

4. It's not as bad as you think.

See that red line on the bottom? This is the pool they're polling from.

[GoCubsGo]

22. Excellent point,

That pool keeps getting smaller. I think it's down to the die-hards now. There's always that 20 percent or so that support the rethugs no matter what. I think that's about all that is left.

[stray cat]

5. AND everyone of them has a vote equal to your own - thats democracy

and why so many DUer wishlists can't get passed.

[Fire1]

6. Racism. Plain and simple. n/t

[Ardent15]

8. A combination of media brainwashing, racism, and fear. nt

[FreakinDJ]

11. Obama and the DEMs united need to expose the GOP for economic road blocks

Essentially the RATpubliCONs are trying to the stave off economic recovery and jobs for Millions of Unemployed Americans

[Randall Flagg]

18. i'm not sure reason will help any more.

These people have been brainwashed by the constant bombardment of lies coming from RW radio and Faux.

[FreakinDJ]

35. Folks vote with their Wallet

You can rile the base only so much. They comprise maybe 60% of the vote (left and right)

The remainder - Average Joe Voter is concerned with making a buck and being able to go home and watch the Ball Game.

[peace13]

12. FOX news for most of the birthers. n/t

[moondust]

14. RW media agitators.

Constantly hammering junk into vulnerable minds.

[anonymous171]

15. We have one political party that thinks it isn't a political party, that is the problem. nt

[L0oniX]

17. Faux , Rus, Hannity & Beck are the pied pipers of the stupid.

[lonestarnot]

19. Don't kid yourself, you are witnessing first-hand the destruction of democratic process.

[Randall Flagg]

21. No shit.

That's what I'm afraid of.

I was hoping someone here would dissuade me.

[lonestarnot]

27. I would not attempt to persuade anyone to believe a grandiose falsehood.

I'm sorry friend. I don't know how we're going to stop the clowns.

[branders seine]

23. So fucking stupid.

Just like you said.

[Warren DeMontague]

24. "I've been around a while and have never seen a political clime like this."

I beg to differ. If you're over 10 years old, you have seen a political clime like this. The GOP thought Bill Clinton ate babies, too, while Hillary was busy murdering Vince Foster and hanging crack pipes on the WH Xmas tree.

Sad to say, but I'm not surprised. This shit happens every time a Democrat gets in the White House. It's fucked, but there it is.

[defendandprotect]

28. Were they given other options . . . what were the choices? Other than the GOP are insane?

[Juche]

29. No idea

I have no idea how it got this bad. A republican who is sane, rational and puts the best interest of his/her country first is shocking nowadays. most are rational and would cut off their (neighbor's) nose to spite their face.

Democrats have radical ideologues in the party, but they do not make up the majority of members and leadership like the do in the GOP.

No idea. I wish I knew, then maybe something could be done about it.

[MadMaddie]

30. Oh you mean the great dumbing down of America started

by the infamous Ronnie Reagan? Shannity, Limbaugh, Palin, McCain, Rove, Cheney, Nixon and the list goes on......that is what happened to America......and now once again the Dems are left to pick up the pieces with obstructionist ignorant Repugs trying to prevent any movement forward. Meanwhile the world is passing us by and laughing their asses off.

[Skittles]

33. YOU KNOW IT MADMADDIE

it is indeed damned depressing

[SalviaBlue]

31. faux news and other propaganda is very effective.

[Raine]

32. Reason for feeling Obama should be impeached ... he's black

sadly I think that is the real reason. :-(

[whyverne]

34. Many Americans love their country but they don't like it.

They really don't like democracy or freedom. They want their king back.

It's stuck in their genes. Alpha male and all that.

It makes me laugh when pundits say "Congressional approval is down to 20%". Except when they're beating the war drums, congressional approval has almost never been over 50%. "We have the greatest system of government in the world", but most of us don't like it. As the HCR battle proved.

Hence the fondness for Bush at the time. He seemed to be like a king. Doing whatever he wanted to do.

[jotsy]

36. The culmination of generations of conditioning.

Between the manipulation in the quality of our education system and the envy advertising is designed to produce in us, the PTB view us as trainable as circus animals who will chase the newest gadget or 'in' brand jeans on command. The pursuit of the appearance of status at any and all costs. I refer to this as being a Pavlovian public, most don't appreciate the term.

There are a variety of other factors, but those I think are the primary mechanisms that have rendered us to such a sorry and incapable state.

Admitting we've been chasing the wrong dog is what I think makes the tension bubble to the surface, the way it is at the moment. The worse things get, the harder it is to deny, yet it makes some of us cling harder to the idea that it wasn't their generation or group that is to blame.

I don't care any more about who did it or how we got here. It's where we are and if we are to take it back and remake it according to the original designers and then apply it in contemporary terms so what it serves are the needs of an independent and self governed society, not a money eating machine that will gobble everything it can until it explodes.

[JoeyT]

37. Well, if it makes you feel any better

that poll was taken of people that still identify as Republicans.
You're down to the dumbest of the dumb. The people with any ethical or moral standards bailed out long ago. The people that had any ability to think on their own have been gone for months. Now you're down to the worst of the lot. Their base. The people that are proud to be ignorant. And they should be. They're really good at it, and everyone should be good at something.

[QC]

38. 20 years of hate radio. n/t

[thereismore]

39. impeachment is from the birthers. nt