Dark humor — Trump's widely believed criminality — Pelosi's cowering to Zionism — and oh-so disrespected American government

06 March 2019

Cultural idiocy — in three this-week examples

First

Sixty-four percent of Americans think that President Trump was a criminal before he became president.

Forty-three percent think he continued his alleged crime spree in office.

And fifty percent of Americans think that known liar-lawyer Michael Cohen is telling the truth about these things, as compared to the thirty-five percent who still support the President's version.

Second

House speaker Nancy Pelosi proudly cowered to the Zionist lobby, thereby conclusively proving Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's earlier assertion that money governs Palestinian-oppressing US-Israeli affairs.

Third

An opinion poll by Axios-Harris — regarding which "most visible" corporations have the best public-perceived reputations — saw the people being polled insist that American government not only be on the list, but essentially rank itself in last place:

For 20 years, Harris Poll has been measuring the reputations of the most high-profile American companies. This year, for the first time, people mentioned the U.S. government as a "company" that they think about — and they hate it.

The fact that people would bring it up unprompted — and then give it the lowest score of the 100 companies on the list — suggests that Americans aren't just unimpressed with their government. They think it's a toxic waste dump.

The U.S. government was near the bottom in all of the categories the poll uses to calculate the score — especially on ethics, trust, culture, vision and citizenship.

No partisan divide on this one: Republicans ranked the government #95 out of the 100 companies, Democrats ranked it #98, and independents put it dead last.

Yikes.

The moral? — We Americans are befuddled enough . . .

. . . to let:

a supposed criminal lead us

a foreign government select and direct American policy,

while we simultaneously volunteer (unprompted) that —

this agglomeration of leadership sucks bigly.

These conflicting characteristics impressionistically corroborate YouTube's many videos claiming that Americans are stupid.

Sample this one, for instance.

Whenever comedians need something to generate some laughs from everyone's inner superiority's high perch, they go out among our streets and ask the random American something that other developed cultures would consider to be mandatory citizen or science knowledge.

The coddled ignorance and happily bolstered self-complacence that our answers usually reveal, catches my attention. It is as if we pride ourselves in being spoiled, empty-headed and analytically challenged.

Perhaps mine is a woefully inadequate primitive's perception of Reality. But one does have to wonder whether publics and cultures like ours can long survive without parental (read autocratic) guidance.

If you wonder about the merit of such an impressionistic evaluation made culture-wide — I can hypothetically submit that my three (recently expired) years in Germany persuaded me that Germans are (on average) better educated, more knowledgeable, thoughtful and analytically precise than their American counterparts.

Dare I conclude that they are smarter?

Now, imagine if those same traits eventually show up in a society that simultaneously displays global economic and military clout. Like China's.

Today, our American version of being stupid usually kills other people. But the direction of the killing axe is going to change within twenty to forty years. After that, we will be doing ourselves in with our characteristic empty-headed aggressiveness.

For the American Republic's survival sake — notice that this comprises two prongs, one democratic and the other existential — we need to try cleaning up our penchant for acting like happily vicious morons.

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Dark humor — Trump's widely believed criminality — Pelosi's cowering to Zionism — and oh-so disrespected American government