Party of the Stupid

Friends,
Introducing the "Know-Nothing" politics of the right. Did you hear the one about conservatives? "Not all conservatives are dumb people, but all dumb people are conservatives."

Peace and Love,
Rev O

New York Times Op-Ed
Know-Nothing Politics

"And the debate on energy policy has helped me find the words for something I’ve been thinking about for a while. Republicans, once hailed as the “party of ideas,” have become the party of stupid."

"What I mean, instead, is that know-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there’s something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise — has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy. The party’s de facto slogan has become: “Real men don’t think things through.”

"What about the experts at the Department of Energy who say that it would take years before offshore drilling would yield any oil at all, and that even then the effect on prices at the pump would be “insignificant”? Presumably they’re just a bunch of wimps, probably Democrats. And the Democrats, as Representative Michele Bachmann assures us, “want Americans to move to the urban core, live in tenements, take light rail to their government jobs.”

"Is this political pitch too dumb to succeed? Don’t count on it."

"In any case, remember this the next time someone calls for an end to partisanship, for working together to solve the country’s problems. It’s not going to happen — not as long as one of America’s two great parties believes that when it comes to politics, stupidity is the best policy."

PAUL KRUGMAN New York Times
Know-Nothing Politics
Know-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple answers to every problem — has become the core of Republican policy.