Creeping ignorance -- a growing problem -- The...

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Ama Bonie Suh Mar 26, 2011, 3:44pm UTC

You need to read "The Naked Communist" if you believe the communists' goals have not been successful, as the article you link to claims.

Here is an excerpt from Cleon Skousen's book on those clear goals: See if you don't find some of them being done in America already.

Ama Bonie Suh Mar 26, 2011, 3:48pm UTC

After you read the Naked Communist, you may want to compare what he said to what you find in this, The Communist Manifesto, as their stated goals.

Is he not telling the truth?

George Shaw Mar 26, 2011, 3:52pm UTC

Yes there are a number of very silly people in the Congress. We can read about the modern ones also, but we should be careful to distinguish between the sensible ones and the others.

Ama Bonie Suh Mar 26, 2011, 3:57pm UTC

I agree.

We must look at their voting records to determine which ones are obeying their puppet masters and which ones are obeying their constituents' wishes?

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Gail Mountain Mar 26, 2011, 3:47pm UTC

Thanks again, George!

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Karl Leuba Mar 26, 2011, 4:06pm UTC

George, if you find it on Alternet, you can count on the information being in favor of a powerful working class, a strong and prosperous majority, an assertion of human rights, and a balance between the need for profit, and exploitation of the consumer. And by gum, the Communists promised all that and delivered nonce. The Fascists promised all that, and by gum delivered nonce.

The Wall Street manipulators are at least honest about maximizing profit by any means. That does not make them good, it just makes them honest about their intent to exploit.

George Shaw Mar 26, 2011, 4:18pm UTC

Yes, but they aren't honest about their methods.

Karl Leuba Mar 26, 2011, 4:46pm UTC

That George is because their methods are not honest, fair, just, or even honorable, but that does not stop them from claiming they are.

The evidence I see around here is the continuous conflation of Fascism with Communism despite the fact that they are polar opposites. But you can expect that kind of distortion aimed at a poorly educated, thoroughly indoctrinated mass of desperate 9 to 5er's.

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William Windsor Mar 26, 2011, 5:50pm UTC

OMG Yes! I was thinking about writing about this, but I've done so so often that I thought it just be redundant.

I watched a show on tv where a family's two pit bulls were consistently menacing the couple's newborn, yet the three were together frequently with little supervision. How stupid do we have to be? Does the child have to have her arm torn off first?

Politics is just an extension of this incredible creeping ignorance. Unbelievable.

George Shaw Mar 30, 2011, 1:21pm UTC

Well stated, William.

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Larry M. Mar 26, 2011, 6:47pm UTC

It isn't creeping, it's a tsunami. It isn't just ignorance, it's misinformation, lies, and propaganda.

teri a. Mar 26, 2011, 7:31pm UTC

May I add mental illness? I really think--seriously--that folks of this persuasion suffer from some chronic anxiety disorder, first and foremost. They must refashion "reality" to fit their anxieties.

Larry M. Mar 26, 2011, 8:47pm UTC

teri,

I think most of us do that to some degree. But some carry it to extremes.

George Shaw Mar 26, 2011, 10:58pm UTC

tera, I agree, that is at least part of the problem.

Larry M. Mar 27, 2011, 9:17am UTC

Well, Queen, there's big money to be made from ignorance so it's no shock that powerful parties do what they can to generate ignorance.

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Duane B. Mar 26, 2011, 9:06pm UTC

Stephen Pizzo seems to be right about 'creeping ignorance', simply reading his article proves it is real one person at a time.

Thatt article is ladened with stereotypes and cliches. Stereotyping and chiches are waht we commonly hear from the ignorant for they are unwilling to think for themselves. They use them because it is what they hear from the media.

If we want to talk about the ramifications of "creeping ignorance" then talk about what it will lead to rather than leave the discussion to stereotyping people you diagree with.

As best I can tell is that the 'tea party' people came togehter over ever increasing governement debt, government spending, and the lack of politicians accountablity. I admit I am cocnerned about those issues. Though, I do believe the atmosphere is warming, that science is the explanation of our physical world, I even belive in the 'big bang' though on that one my view is that God created it. Am I a 'tea partier' or simply ignorant?

In my town a major contributor to the 'creeping ignorance' is our schools, 50% graduation rate and the top graudates having to take remedial classes when they enter the local community college. It is those that distill their views on politics to stereotypes and are never interested in listening to what people are saying and why they saying it.

Ignorance is creeping in and the tide is rsing way to fast.

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DIANE D. Mar 27, 2011, 11:06am UTC

Yes, it sure is.

George Shaw Mar 27, 2011, 11:22am UTC

So the U.S. will solve that by firing more teachers and closing more schools. LOL

George Shaw Mar 27, 2011, 4:36pm UTC

That is understandable by me. I am a former teacher. LOL

Duane B. Mar 27, 2011, 9:53pm UTC

IQB.,

If we keep doing the same things (giving more and more money) we have been doing and keep getting the same (poorer an poorer edcuated kids) results. "That's just dumb for them to do, in my opinion. "

Rather than keep giving the money, why not hold the schools and those who run them accountable?

Most of us simply want to do something different so at least there is hope for a better outcome.

George Shaw Mar 27, 2011, 10:00pm UTC

I don't know where you live. It must be Sweden. I know of no State that has been spending more money on education.All of the have been cutting back for the last several years.

Duane B. Mar 28, 2011, 1:02am UTC

George,

You're right, here in my small district the local taxess have dropped slightly do to the gradual decline of home assessments and the loss of businesses. The state is going is cutting the moneys they pay to the districts, though the number kids attending schools has also decreased.

The pay (benefits included) hasn;t declines. Gross dollars paid is down, non teaching employees has declined. But the only thing we hear about (from both sides) is about money, nothing about changing how the system works.

I have obsiviously over reacted to the remaked about more money for the schools without any accountablity.

Thanks again for keeping me from letting get to carried away with the rhetoric.

George Shaw Mar 28, 2011, 1:36am UTC

Duane, it happens to all of to some degree. We just have to reorient our selves from time to time.
I really admire your ability to correct yourself. Thanks.