How dumb can a nation get and still survive?

[BidenPresident]

T.S. Eliot wrote that the world ends "not with a bang but a whimper,” but I fear our great nation is careening toward a third manner of demise: descent into lip-blubbering, self-destructive idiocy.

How did we become, in such alarming measure, so dumb? Why is the news dominated by ridiculous controversies that should not be controversial at all? When did so many of our fellow citizens become full-blown nihilists who deny even the concept of objective reality? And how must this look to the rest of the world?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...-america-dumb/

[BidenPresident]

"The frequent games of chicken that Congress plays over the debt ceiling are — to use a term of art I recall from Economics 101 — droolingly stupid. In the end, yes, we always agree to pay our obligations. But the credit rating of the planet’s greatest economic superpower has already been lowered because of this every-few-years ritual, and each time we stage the absurd melodrama, we risk a miscalculation that sends us over the fiscal cliff."

[Hawkeye10]

America is going down....HARD....that cant be stopped now.

Buckle Up Fuckers, you earned this with your shit performance.

[BidenPresident]

America is going down....HARD....that cant be stopped now.

Buckle Up Fuckers, you earned this with your shit performance.

Nothing you say makes sense.

[BidenPresident]

And then, of course, there’s the whole “stolen election” farce, which led to the tragedy of Jan. 6. Every recount, every court case, every verifiable fact proves that Joe Biden fairly defeated Donald Trump. Yet a sizeable portion of the American electorate either can’t do basic arithmetic or doesn’t believe that one plus one always equals two.

How dumb can a nation get and still survive? Idiotically, we seem determined to find out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...-america-dumb/

[Matt Dillon]

T.S. Eliot wrote that the world ends "not with a bang but a whimper,” but I fear our great nation is careening toward a third manner of demise: descent into lip-blubbering, self-destructive idiocy.

How did we become, in such alarming measure, so dumb? Why is the news dominated by ridiculous controversies that should not be controversial at all? When did so many of our fellow citizens become full-blown nihilists who deny even the concept of objective reality? And how must this look to the rest of the world?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...-america-dumb/

Probably just a little bit smarter than you in order to be able to survive.

I think most people still are. It is what it is.

[Matt Dillon]

T.S. Eliot wrote that the world ends "not with a bang but a whimper,” but I fear our great nation is careening toward a third manner of demise: descent into lip-blubbering, self-destructive idiocy.

How did we become, in such alarming measure, so dumb? Why is the news dominated by ridiculous controversies that should not be controversial at all? When did so many of our fellow citizens become full-blown nihilists who deny even the concept of objective reality? And how must this look to the rest of the world?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...-america-dumb/

You like T.S. Eliot do ya? Seems like an odd author for a stupid leftist.

How did you become so dumb? Stupid bitches like you and oppressive wannabe-s are the problem.

The solution is patriotic Americans with weapons not afraid to fight for what they believe in.

[Micawber]

They were always stupid. The problem is we are now all aware of it and subjected to it. Internet....
Back in the day they were just out there, voted R and that was that. We had no idea just how deplorable
and hate filled and racist and misogynist and homophobic and resentful and passive aggressive these
white peasants were, or would become if ever women, blacks brown and gay people finally got cut some slack.

[BidenPresident]

They were always stupid. The problem is we are now all aware of it and subjected to it. Internet....
Back in the day they were just out there, voted R and that was that. We had no idea just how deplorable
and hate filled and racist and misogynist and homophobic and resentful and passive aggressive these
white peasants were, or would become if ever women, blacks brown and gay people finally got cut some slack.

Good comment, thank you. One thing I learned from this forum is how deeply racist most Trump supporters are.

[Matt Dillon]

T.S. Eliot wrote that the world ends "not with a bang but a whimper,” but I fear our great nation is careening toward a third manner of demise: descent into lip-blubbering, self-destructive idiocy.

How did we become, in such alarming measure, so dumb? Why is the news dominated by ridiculous controversies that should not be controversial at all? When did so many of our fellow citizens become full-blown nihilists who deny even the concept of objective reality? And how must this look to the rest of the world?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...-america-dumb/

Short answer: Not as dumb as you. Hopefully many others are smarter.

[Hawkeye10]

Nothing you say makes sense.

LIAR

[BidenPresident]

LIAR

Do you even know what the word "liar" means? You do not.

[Hawkeye10]

Do you even know what the word "liar" means? You do not.

If you were telling the truth then you would/could ignore me.

But you dont/cant.

[BidenPresident]

If you were telling the truth then you would/could ignore me.

But you dont/cant.

Okay. You're seriously messed up. So be it.

[signalmankenneth]

Many international observers have been shocked when they look at the United States and see, in the midst of the greatest pandemic in the century, college kids romping on the beaches, or demonstrators at state capitols without masks demanding an end to quarantine, or internet campaigns warning about the dangers of being vaccinated.

Is this a society gone mad and plunging toward its own destruction? Certainly the signs seem to be there. The United States, for long that "temple of liberty" and "beacon of hope" for the world, seems to have been lost in the shuffle, and the rantings and ravings about China that are going on in that No. 1 "Bully Pulpit" over at the U.S. State Department seem to characterize a political elite that has grown totally hysterical over its envisioned loss of influence. What in the world has happened to America?

In the election of 2016, there was a general revolt of the U.S. populace against the policies of those political elites who had been leading the nation for the last 50 years. During that period, the conditions of life for most Americans, particularly among the working classes, have become worse rather than better and the gap between rich and poor is now even greater.

Donald Trump's slogan "Make America Great Again," while containing a certain amount of demagoguery also had a broader appeal in the sense of hearkening back to the "American Dream," the sense that life for your children would be better than your own.

Until the assassination of John F. Kennedy, there was a firm belief in progress among the American population. Kennedy's ambitious space program, and the sense that the young president would also move to end the long years of the Cold War, had created a great sense of optimism among Americans, tired of the fear-mongering of the Cold War.

There was also genuine momentum in the economy, increasing productivity, the development of new sources of energy, etc. But with the death of the president under still mysterious circumstances, there was a phase change, and a great demoralization set in.

This was followed by a 10-year war in Vietnam which destroyed a large portion of our youth, and where veterans came back believing that the country had abandoned them. And then comes the hedonistic youth revolution, which characterized a general revolt against all social norms and the traditional political process.

While Kennedy's attempt to revive the type of world envisioned by Franklin D. Roosevelt at the end of World War II, a community of nations united rather than one divided by ideology, that attempt ended with his death. And the costs of the Vietnam War would soon put an end to funding for his ambitious space program.

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-1...rQA/index.html