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truthbetold

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Tue Nov-23-04 10:48 PM
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"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." -- John Stuart Mill

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Tue Nov-23-04 10:50 PM
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1. I dunno, I know a lot of stupid democrats.

Granted, the # of stupid republicans I know outweighs stupid dems by like 20 to 1.

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PassingFair

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Tue Nov-23-04 10:50 PM
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2. I love JS Mill....

n/t

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SemiCharmedQuark

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Tue Nov-23-04 10:54 PM
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3. I think ignorant is a better word.

Edited on Tue Nov-23-04 10:54 PM by SemiCharmedQuark

Conservatives usually fall into three classes...greedy/ignorant/naive. The greedy are often not stupid at all but quite intelligent. Look at Ben Stein. They just don't give two shits about the rest of us as long as they "got theirs". The naive believe all the B.S. that the RW spews, ie., everyone has an equal shot in the U.S., blah blah blah. So stupid? No. Just...naive. The third are the people who get their news from pop culture and just don't care enough to search deeper. Stupid? No...just uninformed.

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jdots

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Tue Nov-23-04 10:54 PM
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4. yes and no

some people are progressively stupid,while creationalists have created a new stupidness by thinking they didn't evolve into the fools they have become.Certs is a breath mint and a candy mint
Carry on.....

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mtowngman

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Tue Nov-23-04 10:56 PM
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5. republican voters are

Thread the other night talked about how GOP counts on their supporters being stupid-definitely something to that, Unfortunately, that seems to be 51% of American voters.

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pleiku52cab

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Tue Nov-23-04 10:59 PM
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6. OR - to put it another way

Bubba, he don know sheet

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babylonsister

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Tue Nov-23-04 11:17 PM
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7. "Stupid is as stupid does." Forest Gump?

I've seen a couple of examples of ultra-conservative evangelical christians recently, and I have got to say, they scare the hell out of me! Currently trying to determine if my brother is one of them. To be continued...

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