Stupid Is as Stupid Does
The people in the Midwest and Southern parts of the country wonder why we Easterners always look down our better-educated and more culturally sophisticated noses at them.
Because you are stupid, beer drinking, pick-up truck driving, high school educated assholes, that’s why.
What else would explain why major regions of the country--the hardest hit by the failed economic policies of the Bush Administration, where factory closings, farm failures, job outsourcing to India, poor access to health care, not to mention a high percentage of your sons, daughters, wives and husbands dying needlessly in a war that never needed to happen—would vote overwhelmingly for the status quo.
You are all the gullible rubes and hayseeds we always knew you to be.
You fell hook, line, and sinker for Karl Rove’s carefully crafted campaign message. You voted for fear. Fear of gays and lesbians gaining the right to marry, despite the fifty percent divorce rate among heterosexual couples. Fear that a Kerry administration would be weak on terrorism, despite the fact Osama bin Laden, the real culprit behind 9/11, is still free to record video messages while Americans are dying in Iraq, a nation that had nothing to do with the attack. Fear that the so-called Liberals would ruin the economy, despite the fact Bush came into his first term with a federal surplus (left by Bill Clinton) and within a year turned it into the largest federal deficit in this nation’s history. And it’s still growing.
There is no logic to the thinking of the red state inhabitants. One can only surmise all that inbreeding has weakened the gene pool so much you lack the brain cells to analyze and reason.
We blue staters—the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, Upper Midwest and West Coast—who contribute more in federal taxes than we receive back in services and thus work to support your stupid country asses—probably need to think about seceding from the union. Then we could get the kind of government WE deserve, and wouldn’t have to live with backward bumpkins like you.
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You are so damn right!!!! I could not believe it that by 1:00 a.m. as I reached to turn off my TV that Tom Browkaw and Tim Russert were saying that Bush won Ohio!
I went to bed feeling defeated! This morning I went to get a hair cut and the Barber was talking about how devastated that he was and how now the fallout that is going to come will happen to our young black men who will be drafted for war. He even shared a story about how a young black woman in a Stewarts shop told him that she was voting for Bush because Kerry was a snake. He said that he wanted to slap her...He should have.
You know about the saying that Blacks have to be twice as (fill in the blank) as Whites in order to just get our fair shake at things...Well, that same saying should have been what motivated us to the polls.
Even dumb assed hick, inbred country white folk utilize the one right that we all have....the right to vote.
Black folk should never not want to vote...shit, there had to be an Amendment to the Constitution for it!
86 % white people voted vs 8% Black and Hispanics.
Outside of the larger cities in most major states like Georgia in Atlanta, Chicago in Illinois, Detriot for Michigan and downstate for New York, Philly for Penn, Trenton for NJ, and Cleveland for Ohio- that the rest of those cities are filled with very people the people who you so vividly described in your story-along with those who overwhelmingly populate places such as Montana, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, the Dakotas and all.
ANd to think that the US is considered an Industrialized Nation!
By the way...welcome back and congrats on your tests.
When you finally decide to open that restaurant up here let me know-I will have to beg, borrow and steal to help you make it happen :)
Posted by: cee-boone at November 3, 2004 11:04 AMGod, I feel bad to be a Southerner. I mean seriously, I had to damn near PAY my mom and grandma to go vote even though they BOTH participated in the Civil Rights Movement and marched from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights for Blacks!
Metafilter talks about what happened while people busily re-elected Bush. America's going to become a Fundamentalist nation so quickly it will be blistering. And while I ain't a religious man, I'm keeping Matthew 7:20 in the back of my mind all day.
Posted by: karsh at November 3, 2004 11:36 AM*sigh*
i'm not proud.
i actually come from one of the red states (Indiana) but i live in one of the blue states (Minnesota).
I am not surprised in the least that Indiana was a red state for the simple fact that it is and has been in the past the Midwest headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan. It is one of the most conservative states outside of the bible belt. And as you said it is one of the states that is consistently being ruined by conservative economic policies. If you took a trip to Gary, Indiana and all the closed steel mills you'd understand my meaning.
However, Minnesota has an interesting feel. Its a conservative but democratic state. And although it was the state that elected "The Body" as governor at one time and unfortunately was one of the states that contributed to the whole Nader thing in 2000 (5% vote for him rather than 1% this year...although Minnesota still was a Gore state) Minnesotans were clearly ready for a change.
My only hope is that the draft is reinstated and the kids that go to war are the ones of Republican backing families. Then maybe they'll understand.
In any case, I feel your anger but remember some of us in these backwater states hated that Bush was in office just like you.
Much love!
Posted by: Steph at November 3, 2004 4:01 PMI'm thinking returning to New York isn't such a bad thing afterall. I am so out of place down here and I'm drowing in a sea of freakin' red!
Very well said, Bernie. Yes, we were separated at birth.
Posted by: Deb at November 3, 2004 4:08 PMbernie, i so agree with you...
Posted by: christopher david at November 3, 2004 4:23 PM