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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLeonard Pitts I will not die of stupid
Someday, Im going to die.
This, I grudgingly accept. I have no idea how its going to happen. Maybe I will die of having a tree fall on me, of eating tainted shellfish or of being struck by lightning.
But this much I guarantee. I will not die of having wagered my life that TV carnival barkers, political halfwits and goobers in MAGA hats know more than experts with RNs, MDs, and Ph.Ds after their names.
In other words, I will not die of stupid.
Not that there arent plenty of opportunities to do so.
Indeed, in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and the question of when and how the nations economy should be reopened, we seem to have tapped the U.S. Strategic Stupid Reserve. The result has been a truly awe-inspiring display of Americas matchless capacity for mental mediocrity.
Surveys show, for instance, that a solid majority of Americans (63% according to a CBS News poll) are more worried about reopening the country too fast and worsening the pandemic than opening it too slowly and worsening the economy. Yet a noisy minority of protesters is furious at government for trying to keep them healthy. They demand their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of acute respiratory distress.
https://www.tribdem.com/news/editorials/leonard-pitts-i-will-not-die-of-stupid/article_d01d9330-898d-11ea-ad58-1f06b870740e.html
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)mask. Thank you, good sir.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)Its almost enough to restore my faith in the fundamental sanity of the American people.
-Laelth
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,027 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)Never got that put that tersely, between the eyes, before.
cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)The back should say, "if you could read the front, you are too close."
Nice quote. Thanks for the post.