Monday, January 23, 2017

Stupid is as Stupid Does

Definition of stupid

1.      a :  slow of mind :  obtuse
    b :  given to unintelligent decisions or acts 
       :  acting in an unintelligent or careless manner
    c :  lacking intelligence or reason :  brutish

2.      Dulled in feeling or sensation :  torpid 

3.      Marked by or resulting from unreasoned thinking or acting :  senseless  stupid
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One thing that continues to puzzle me is how normally intelligent people act so stupid when it comes to politics? A case in point was how Toronto voted en masse to re-elect a corrupt and spend thrift Liberal government with Ottawa and Thunder Bay being two outliers that acted in similar fashion. My first reaction at the time was "are there really that many stupid people in those cities". Then I thought, using the word "stupid" is rather derogatory and so I let it slide.

The recent US election and the reaction by many Canadian's brought that word "stupid" to mind again. So I decided to look up the definition to see if I was being out of place. I was not. The thoughtless comments that Canadian's are making about Trump confirm that they are being stupid. And closer to home the lack of rational reaction to the actions of Trudeau confirms that they are indeed stupid.

How can one explain that people rationalise to themselves why they make stupid decisions by being total hypocrites to the ethics and morals that they typically follow? For example an episode in our national parliament soon after the election in 2015 left me flabbergasted. Justin Trudeau, in his own pompous way, strode across the floor of the legislature and physically grabbed a member of the opposition so that they would sit down and the business at hand could begin. He should not have done that and apologised afterward. But that was not what really bothered me at the time; it was the reaction of the media and people in general. A tsk tsk here and a waggle of a finger there and all was good again. I asked myself, what would have happened if former Prime Minister Harper had done the very same act? Well, all hell would have broken out led by the Liberals and the NDP who would have decried the brutality of the act!

So here we are in early 2017 and the left on both sides of the border continues to show a insipid desire to leave logic and reason aside and instead say and do stupid things that, if the shoe was on the other foot they would find great offence! So Hillary Clinton, a woman, lost the Presidential election? So what? Just because she is a woman people should have voted for her? Do the leftists of this world think others should be as simple minded and vain as them? Obviously they do. Clinton had offered nothing more than being a woman and when she did make promises it was there would be more of the irrational acts that Obama had delivered. If she had presented a logical platform that resonated with the people she likely would have won. Stephen Harper, upon seeing that he lost to Trudeau, said simply that the electorate was right and he accepted that decision without rancor or incrimination.

Trump made much about how the election process is rigged, and he is absolutely correct! With the Main Stream Media so uniformly aligned on one side and the political machines so geared to one method it indeed was rigged. But they never took into consideration that Trump saw the only value in Twitter; the ability to get a message out without it being filtered by the media and skewed as they wanted to skew it. His election showed that there are enough people who aren't stupid, at least in the US. They evaluated the two choices and even though they may have found Trumps personality wanting accepted the platform he presented as being the better choice. He won. People of intelligence and logic normally would shrug their shoulders and do as Harper did; accept the results and wait to try again in another 4 years as that is what elections are all about. Sometimes a poor decision is made by the electorate as they get bamboozled by looks and miss that there is no substance but in time everyone will have the chance to re-evaluate and then take appropriate action. That is the main advantage of a democracy.

The only sad part is that the left, which in Canada are the Liberals, the NDP and the Green's and south of the border are the Democrats, are so convinced that only they should be in charge that they willingly throw away any thought about many of the policies they say they hold so dear, such as equality, fairness, justice and freedom. And if there is one group I just cannot stand it is hypocrites! Magnanimous bastards that want to do onto others those things they don't want to experience themselves. Lets fight discrimination by discriminating! Fight gender bias by being biased to gender! And so on to the point where we are now where they are kind of humble only when they win and threaten anarchy when they lose. Yeah, that is how you demonstrate to the world how democracy should be. No wonder there are so many dictatorships in the world where at heart their leaders are true "socialists" and so see that only a despot can provide them what they deserve.


Why is it that the left is populated by so many normally intelligent people who act in such stupid and irrational ways? I wish I knew!

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