The Stupid Kids

Literacy tests to vote are unconstitutional. But how about a reality test?

The Rude Pundit:

44% of Republicans think we're gonna need armed revolution. Christ. That's more Republicans than those who believe in evolution (36%). That's more Republicans than those who believe climate change is really happening (27%). This nation is long past the point where we have got to start saying that some people hold beliefs that are so ludicrous, so appalling, so ignorant that they shouldn't even be considered part of the conversation. Or they're Louie Gohmert. When a third of Republicans believe that "Some people are hiding the truth about the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in order to advance a political agenda," then it's time to treat them like the pariahs that they are. The inmates shouldn't run the asylum. The stupid kids shouldn't get to teach the rest of the school.

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Seriously, it's like the GOP is a bunch of whoremongers driven mad by syphilis, refusing any medical treatment because penicillin is from the Devil and they'd rather scrawl filthy manifestos against Obamacare in their shit and howl at the moon and call it "genius."

Speaking of the Affordable Care Act, another poll came out that'll make you wanna bang your head against the wall until you're so brain-damaged that it doesn't matter anymore. The Kaiser Family Foundation discovered that 42% of Americans don't know what the status of the ACA is, with some thinking it's been repealed or overturned by the Supreme Court. 59% of people who make under $30 grand a year, or, you know, the very people the ACA would help, don't know that it's still the law of the land. And while that number is not broken down by party, another one is: 68% of Republicans don't want to expand Medicaid.

We are so very fucked because Americans are so fucking dumb, especially the Americans belonging to one particular political party. When a large number of a nation's citizens are more willing to entertain armed insurrection than providing health care for the poor, well, it's pretty goddamn hard to make the case that we're the Greatest Country in the History of Everything.