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How could someone this stupid get elected to any office? (Original Post) Archae Jun 2015 OP
This guy... yuiyoshida Jun 2015 #1
Apparently Old Codger Jun 2015 #2
Let me tell you tale of a city run by a Church . . . Jack Rabbit Jun 2015 #3
3-2-1 and we have liftoff !! The Dunning–Kruger effect is on it's way where it will reach... BlueJazz Jun 2015 #4
He is a softer version of Jim Jones. Half-Century Man Jun 2015 #5
Religion has great appeal to simpletons. GeorgeGist Jun 2015 #6
Too funny IHateTheGOP Jun 2015 #7
So much projection. EEO Jun 2015 #8
Yes - And the Lives of the Great Televangelists Stand As Shining Examples!!! panfluteman Jun 2015 #9
I'm reminded of something H L Mencken wrote Fortinbras Armstrong Jun 2015 #10
Drivel libodem Jun 2015 #11
Atheists are Moral entities and don't need a fear of a sky god to do good. zebonaut Jun 2015 #12

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
3. Let me tell you tale of a city run by a Church . . .
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 05:56 PM
Jun 2015

Please click here (Boccacio, The Decameron, Day 1/Second Story).

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
4. 3-2-1 and we have liftoff !! The Dunning–Kruger effect is on it's way where it will reach...
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 06:20 PM
Jun 2015

...the planet "Don't-know-very-much-about-anything-but-think-I-do" shortly.
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IHateTheGOP

(1,059 posts)
7. Too funny
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 12:34 AM
Jun 2015

All the things he says you'll have in a secular town describes what we have in the South!! THE BIBLE BELT!! Ha ha ha ha ha!!!

panfluteman

(2,065 posts)
9. Yes - And the Lives of the Great Televangelists Stand As Shining Examples!!!
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 02:02 AM
Jun 2015

Note: Yes, I'm being sarcastic here. And Christians don't lie or bear false witness - except when they're talking about the separation of church and state in our constitution, which anyone who passed high school civics class should know DOES exist.

Fortinbras Armstrong

(4,473 posts)
10. I'm reminded of something H L Mencken wrote
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 08:17 AM
Jun 2015
When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.


He was thinking specifically of Warren Harding when he wrote this in 1920.
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