It has become fashionable to deflect the outrageous lies and cumbersome misinformation of the TeaBaggers, Deathers, and other poor misguided morons yelling their lies at Town Halls, by insisting that, "They are not stupid. They are frightened."
We hear it from Congress Critters, Policy Wonks, Journalists, and the Gossip Mongers on TV.
Why would we accept their clumsy cover for the egregious ignorance and mindless, reflexive screaming about irrelevancies? They would have us believe that those "poor" folks are not dumber than shit, easily led down the garden path by marketers and manipulators, and just trying to cope with change... More "Fair and Balanced", no doubt.
Liberals and Progressives keep wondering why they continually get blindsided by the Right Wing Noise Machine. They act offended by the misrepresentation of their ideas, but continue to assume no ill intent. They keep trying to explain why folks have got the Liberal Agenda so very wrong. After all, a "civilized" approach to debate is the way to change the world, is it not?
They preen over their humanism, generosity of spirit, and "Big Tent" approach to politics and policy. And they keep getting knee capped. Time, after time, after time.
Let's stop assuming the lily white, over 50 crowd, disrupting the Town Halls, blocking debate on the particulars of health care and insurance reform, and fostering the insanity of industry talking points, are just the less hearty among us. Let's stop offering comfort to them in their "fear". Let's stop pretending they somehow have a rational position that must be defended in the name of comity.
They are stupid. They are ignorant. They are uncivilized, and undemocratic. They have no place at the table and must be laughed at, called by their rightful name, and never pandered to in the name of their delicate feelings.
They are stupid.