As sort of a quiz that was intended, I readily admit, to annoy, I asked what they thought of Ed Liddy, whose name has recently been plastered, front page to back in every newspaper across the land, and across every television newscast.
“Who?”
When I told them who Ed Liddy was, I got the rejoinder, “Ed, I can’t spend every waking moment studying political stuff.”
Me, “Tell me, say, during just this past week, how much time have you actually spent ‘studying political stuff’; four hours, one, 15 minutes; how much time?’”
Dead silence and deadpan looks, as if I’d just asked to peek inside their respective dirty laundry drawers.
Would any adult with statistically normal intelligence walk through a bustling crowd, holding his billfold or her purse out at arm’s length? That’s essentially what you’re doing when you fail to arm yourself adequately with at least basic facts concerning economics, history, our Constitution, and what’s going on in government.
Right this moment we’re being scammed by the Republicans. And we’re letting them! “Here, I just got paid and it’s full of tens, twenties and it has a few one-hundred dollar bills — take my wallet, please.”
The Republicans have made no bones that they want Obama to fail. Their goal has nothing whatsoever to do with any principle other than their unquenchable thirst for the power that will enable those at the pinnacle of the economic peaks to further enrich themselves. What happens to everyone else are not concerns that concern them the least.
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