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ocial democracy to america and with it higher taxes draconian relegations a decline in the private economy and investment the transfer of millions of jobs to public unions and billions to crony supporters law enforcement has declined to the extent that policemen are afraid to do their jobs for fear of justice department prosecutions public safety has mirrored this with a huge increase of murders in all major metropolitan areas as gangs many composed of illegal immigrants roam with impunity under obama the left way of thinking has won several battles on several cultural fronts as hard as valiant traditionalists have fought the battle the left has too many willing accomplices in academia the mainstream media and every level of government that it feels a kinship in as george armstrong custer was in south dakota pope francis recent visit to the united states has also underscored how vast the transformation of american culture has come his attacks on capitalism and free trade as well as his calls for economic equality in an unequal world not only world betrays a vast ignorance of how prosperity is created but smacks more of karl than it does jesus despite his bromides about taking care of the planet his acceptance of the unsubstantiated and an agenda driven theory of made man climate change in doing so the pope has put his papal power and moral authority in league with a legion of population control fanatics abortionists euthanasia promoters and death panel advocates putting the pope s beloved poor at greater risk noted economist thomas sowell points out how little the pope understands the root causes and solutions for poverty in the 1980s the national conference of catholic bishops published a document entitled pastoral letter on catholic social teaching and the u s economy this document has worked at cross purposes with the traditional teachings of the church and the prosperity and culture of the united states the specifics of the pastoral letter reflect far more of the secular enlightenment of the 18th century than they do catholic traditions archbishop weakland admitted that such an enlightenment figure as thomas paine is now coming back through a strange channel perhaps some of the cardinals and bishops are unaware that paine rejected the teachings of any church that i know of including the church of rome to base social or moral principles on the philosophy of the 18th century enlightenment and then call the result catholic teachings is disingenuous and unworthy of any catholic prelate this set of secular ideas does nothing to predispose the traditional faithful to the sermons admonitions and teachings of pope francis it anything it further divided the catholic church the ideological left in the vatican blithely throw around the phrase the poor blaming poverty on what other people are doing to or for the poor according to dr sowell it is not poverty but prosperity that needs explaining consider which has a better track record of helping the less fortunate fighting for a bigger slice of the economic pie or producing a bigger pie in 1900 only 3 percent of american homes had electric lights but more than 99 percent had them before the end of the century infant mortality rates were 165 per thousand in 1900 and 7 per thousand by 1997 a scholar specializing in the study of latin america said that the official poverty level in the united states is the upper middle class in mexico the much maligned market economy of the united states has done far more for the poor than the ideology of the left poverty is a natural given but prosperity requires many things none of which is equally distributed around the world or even within a given society geographic settings are radically different both among nations and within nations especially climate factors so are demographic differences with some nations and groups having a median age over 40 and others having a median age under 20 pope francis own native argentina was once among the leading economies of the world before it was ruined by the kind of ideological notions of social democracy he is now promoting around the world this means that some groups have several times as much adult work experience as others cultures are also radically different in many ways especially in the way they approach work development education and personal responsibility as economic historian david s landes said the world has never been a level playing field no one can make that a reality but they can do is turn the world into an armed camp or a one world dictatorship that will splintered apart before the ink on any agreement has dried this is all the result of the loss of the garden or what david hume called the twisted timber of mankind posted in uncategorized tags city of god gnosticism pie in the sky robert croly saul alinsky thomas sowell in defense of stupidity november 17 2014 leave a comment most people have heard the name jonathan gruber an economics professor at massachusetts institute of technology for the first time even though he has spent the last few years touting his expertise in health care as one of the architects of obamacare and several state plans in new england well that has all changed lately he has been the subject of several news stories because of his casual remarks about his superlative work on obamacare and the administration s lack of transparency about the affordable health care act gruber s main point was that transparency in elections especially for the democrats was a sure ticket to defeat with regard to the aca gruber intimated no voter in his right mind would have ever voted for a bill where the young and healthy had to pay for the poor s health care while simultaneously losing their own health care plans to avoid this conundrum the government was compelled to lie to the public in good conscience and because of the abject stupidity of the american people in retrospect it would seem that the stupidity comment would only apply to the millions who voted for president obama s re elections the millions who clearly saw through the fraud of obamacare have nothing to be ashamed of and should not take offense at the democratic game plan gruber s new recognition has been entirely negative it has resulted in his being nearly ostracized from the political milieu as well as having much of his financial pipeline cut off most democratic politicians from nancy pelosi who praised his brilliance in 2009 to president obama have not only denied him but jettisoned him under the wh bus while others have rewritten him completely out of political history for all practical matters jonathan gruber is a non person who never worked for the obama camp it has been estimated that gruber has collected well into six figures in fees from the state and federal governments since 2011 given this unexpected fallout one may question the intelligence and common sense of dr gruber himself or perhaps he has just fallen on the sharp short of his personal arrogance his hubris in trying to con the body politic his comments also tell us a lot about the liberal opinion of the people they pretend to serve and honor the term useful idiot comes to mind in political jargon it is a term often attributed to vladimir lenin for people perceived as propagandists for a cause whose goals they are not fully aware of and who are used cynically by the leaders of the cause the democratic mind even has a greater disdain for the intelligence of republican voters according to chris mooney book the republican brain and other scientific ideologues they are convinced that conservatives suffer from a genetic cognitive impairment that causes them to favor small government so all this is in the dna this is an observation that only a left wing ideologue could fathom stupidity has always been part and parcel of the american character democracy could not live without it starting with christopher columbus who discovered america while he was looking for india which happened to be 1000s of miles in the other direction and then there was the fatal stupidity of george armstrong custer who led the 7 th cavalry into a trap of several thousand indians at the little big horn i need only mention the names of a few of our presidents such as nixon carter and obama to show how stupidity has reigned in the white house stupidity is also at the core of our comedy entertainment let s face it stupidity is funny very funny in the best comedy teams in history from abbott and costello martin and lewis laurel and hardy and burns and allen the one who always got the laughs was the stupid one not the serious straight man the lovable stupid character forrest gump captivated the hearts but maybe not the minds with esoteric statements like stupid is as stupid does many people may think old yankee catcher yogi berra is stupid for saying things like when you come to a fork in the road take it or i observed a lot by watching the man has an innate brilliance that someone like dr gruber could appreciate and berra has written far many more best selling books than gruber stand up comedian ronald dee ron white is best known for his show you can t fix stupid of course when obama leaves office we hope to fix some of his stupid mistakes serious actor jeff daniels is reprising his role as harry dunne in dumb and dummer why is this actor renown for his roles in gettysburg or his award winning hbo show the newsroom doing it ostensibly to demonstrate his great range as an actor this sequel led all films its first weekend having grossed 38 1 million in revenues stupidity is as american as apple pie but for those that may still think that being stupid or laughing at stupid jokes is somehow un american i refer to a couple of scientific studies that have conclude that stupidity is just another viral disease researchers from johns hopkins university and the university of nebraska have discovered a virus that makes you just a little bit dumber the scientists stumbled upon the previously unknown stupidity virus in the throat cultures of healthy subjects during a completely unrelated experiment the 44 of people who tested positive for the virus performed seven to nine points lower on iq tests that measured attention span and how fast and accurately people process visual information when the nebraska researchers injected the virus into the digestive systems of mice they got the same result the rodents blundered around mazes appeared flummoxed by new toys and seemed oblivious to new entryways in and out of their cages of course as is true in all science except studies on global warming opposing views are always expected in forbes magazine purdue university virologist david sanders said he would need to see this replicated before he d believe the claim the claim went viral in a manner of hours as wired put it researchers at the john hopkins medical school and the university of nebraska have discovered a virus that infects our brains and makes us more stupid what s misleading here is the story never reveals who is being quoted saying makes us more stupid the implication is that it s the scientists or someone in authority but there s no such phrase in the paper or the press release from johns hopkins university nor does the story seem to include an interview the source may have been newsweek with its story american researchers discover stupidity virus they really don t speculate as to how this is transmitted and whether we should be quarantined after watching reruns of the three stooges or peewee s playhouse but we should be prohibited from laughing in someone s face all things considered jonathan gruber s blatant arrogance adds yet another chapter to the growing saga of the obama administration and its distrust and contempt for the american people in exposing his own ignorance and abject stupidity by jeopardizing a multi million dollar gig with the federal government as one of their most brilliant health care expert gruber openly revealed the liberal contempt for the american people his words demonstrate clearly that doctrinaire liberals condescend to the american voter they secure their own lucrative livelihoods through mendacity deception false promises and character assassination it is a formula that they have employed in some manner since the days of fdr and harry hopkins their overt elitism is a standard characteristic of liberals not only in government and academia but also in its allies in the mainstream media as ell as their capitalistic cronies they all dine from the same trove of arrogance greed and lust for power this is not a new idea liberalism as it is practiced today traces its roots back to an early christian heresy gnosticism dates back just after the beginning of the christian church gnosticism has affected the culture and church of the time and has evolved over the centuries into the marxism and liberalism of today the word gnosticism comes from the greek word gnosis which means knowledge liberals under its influence are often blinded by their own elite confidence in what they deem to be their intellectual superiority to people who work for a living they erroneously believe that their command of enlightened ideas unfathomed by the masses privileges them to sit in rule of their subjects obama keeps reminding the american people that he is not a king or a prince left unsaid is that he wishes he were with unrestricted use of the executive order he still may get his wish i would not be surprised to find a dog eared copy of the prince by his bedside as for professor gruber it appears as the joke immanent in american stupidity falls squarely on his slumping shoulders it has been nice knowing you johnnie posted in uncategorized tags abbott and costello dumb and dumber to gnosticism jonathan gruber stupidity virus useful idiot about author after graduating from holy cross bill borst earned an ma in asian history from st john s university and a ph d in american history from st louis university 1972 a former new yorker he taught for many years in the st louis area while also hosting a weekly radio show on wgnu from 1984 2006 he currently is a regular substitute for conservative phyllis schlafly on ksiv radio 1320 he is the author of two books on social history liberalism fatal consequences and the scorpion and the frog a natural conspiracy he just retired as the features editor of the mindszenty foundation monthly report in his 11 years from 2003 2013 he wrote nearly 130 essays on catholic culture and world affairs many in st louis also know him as the baseball professor because of a course that he offered at maryville college from 1973 74 it was arguably the first fully accredited baseball history course in the midwest the author of several short books on the old st louis browns he started the st louis browns historical society in 1984 in 2009 his first two plays were produced on the local stage the last memory of an ol brownie fan ran six performances at the sound stage in crestwoo...