Stupid Is As Stupid Does

Our Constitutional Revolution starts at your next local election and culminates, this year, on November 8, 2022. We can overwhelm them at the polls, even if they try to cheat again

By Steve Rossiter ——Bio and Archives--April 18, 2022 

Editor's Note:  I've not been given permission to publish this piece, and if either the author or Canada Free Press object, I will merely link it. But the impact of the foundationally formidable logic appearing here wouldn't be fully appreciated.  Also, for the benefit for any who may not know who Dietrich Bonhoeffer was, I added a link in the article.  Please follow it.    RK

“Stupid is as stupid does.”  These words were uttered and made famous by that great American philosopher Forrest Gump, in the movie by the same name. Until recently, I viewed these words as a cute slogan with a limited application in the real world.  Not anymore! A few days ago, I received a short video that discussed German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s (1908 – 1945) Theory of Stupid.

As a student of history, I keep finding that there isn’t much need for new intellectual input about human behavior.  Everything about human nature has been known since biblical times by wiser men than anyone today. 

In a previous article I discussed the phenomena of mass psychosis and how this has impacted American culture and values in our times.  Coupled with the information that Bonhoeffer presented, we have a complete picture of our problems with human nature in 2022 America, Canada, and much of the world.

Bonhoeffer writes: 

“Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity. The power of the one needs the stupidity of the other. The process at work here is not that particular human capacities, for instance, the intellect, suddenly atrophy or fail. Instead, it seems that under the overwhelming impact of rising power, humans are deprived of their inner independence and, more or less consciously, give up establishing an autonomous position toward the emerging circumstances. The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent.

In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him.

He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.

This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for it is this that can once and for all destroy human beings.”

He continues: 

“It seems obvious that stupidity is less a psychological than a sociological problem. It is a particular form of the impact of historical circumstances on human beings, a psychological concomitant of certain external conditions.”

Against stupidity we have no defense

Bonhoeffer goes on:

“Against stupidity we have no defense. Neither protests nor force can touch it. Reasoning is of no use. Facts that contradict personal prejudices can simply be disbelieved — indeed, the fool can counter by criticizing them, and if they are undeniable, they can just be pushed aside as trivial exceptions. So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self-satisfied. In fact, they can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make them aggressive. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.” 

 He further writes:

 “The word of the Bible that the ‘fear of God is the beginning of wisdom’ declares that the internal liberation of human beings to live the responsible life before God is the only genuine way to overcome stupidity. But these thoughts about stupidity also offer consolation in that they utterly forbid us to consider the majority of people to be stupid in every circumstance. It really will depend on whether those in power expect more from peoples’ stupidity than from their inner independence and wisdom.” 

He finally concludes:

 “We must abandon all attempts to convince the stupid person.”

Please understand, we may all have a bit of “stupid” in each of us about something. Be that as it may, Bonhoeffer has isolated a failing strategy patriotic Americans have tried to use for decades, trying to reason with the Marxist Democrats.  We now know that they simply will never listen to reason. It also allows me to understand my experience trying to have a discussion with these people and all I get is being labeled by the latest term in the Marxist Democrat arsenal of hate speech, followed by the current platitudes of the month.

“If you can’t convince them, confuse them.” ~ Harry S. Truman

Rid America of the criminal cabal of Marxist Democrats

It is time for patriotic, Constitution-loving, Americans to focus on what we can do, rather than wasting time trying to change the hearts and minds of Marxist Democrats.  With our actions to date, it appears we have already established a state of confusion for the Biden administration, the Marxist Democrat cabal, and their minions in the media.  We simply need to keep the pressure on as more and more truth is revealed in regard to their complicity in the wrong doings against President Trump and America.

What is left is the thing we have the most influence on and must do; defeat them at every possible turn.  Rid America of the criminal cabal of Marxist Democrats and their minions in every elected office in America.  Defeat is the only message the Marxist cabal will understand.

When the majority of Americans step up and squash them like a bug in the voting booth, it will demonstrate to them and all patriotic Americans that the Marxist Democrats were, at best, a small loud minority, not a majority.

It is time for America’s silent majority to once again come forth and loudly proclaim the traditional American values we have allowed to slip away.  It is time for Americans to step up and stop allowing 5% of the population dictating how the other 95% should live and behave.  If the 5% choose to be offended, whose problem is it?  This current foolishness has to stop!

Our Constitutional Revolution starts at your next local election and culminates, this year, on November 8, 2022.  We can overwhelm them at the polls, even if they try to cheat again.

Who Really is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

By Rich Kozlovich

On March 5, 2019 Monica Showalter posted the article, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's mom shows the socialist disconnect from reality on taxes saying:

“Like Sen. Kamala Harris, who was rebuked by her own father for perpetrating the stereotype of Jamaicans as potheads, socialist Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was effectively rebuked by her own mother, who told the Daily Mail she moved to Florida from New York to get away from all those high taxes.  

'I was cleaning houses in the morning and working as a secretary at a hospital in the afternoon. I was working from 6am until 11pm. And I prayed and prayed, and things worked out. After the children graduated from college, I figured it was time for me to move to Florida.'  

"Blanca said it was a no-brainer, adding: 'I was paying $10,000 a year in real estate taxes up north. I'm paying $600 a year in Florida. It's stress-free down here.'”

Yet we have her daughter wanting to tax “the rich” at 70%. The only problem is the rich won’t be paying those taxes. It will be people like her mother, but apparently AOC, a Boston University educated economist, didn’t understand that. How could that be?  

Well, Michelle Malkin comments:

“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez majored in economics, but she doesn’t seem to have learned much. It costs a pretty penny to earn a diploma in stupid. The annual list price to attend Boston University — including tuition, fees, room, and board — currently rounds out to $70,000. …….Four years, 52 credits and nearly $300,000…….

It turns out her three hundred thousand dollar degree tells her that if taxes aren’t enough to pay for all her loony socialist ideas all we have to do is print more money. Wow, Venezuela's Maduro didn’t need a three hundred thousand dollar degree to decide to do that. He also destroyed Venezuela. 

Maduro has been a monster to his people, starving them, destroying their economy, completely destroying their public health system and yet this BU educated economist refuses to condemn him or his actions. 

As Thomas Lifson commented in his article, Ocasio-Cortez refuses to denounce Maduro when asked saying:

"The strongest condemnation she could come up with for a dictator who is starving his people, forcing millions to flee to market economies that are able to feed them, is "this is absolutely a complex issue." 

"She goes on to caution against U.S. intervention, which is what really concerns her — not the toll exacted on the Venezuelan people themselves..........Because America is the only real problem when it comes to Venezuela."

Maybe Brazil and Columbia are also Ocasio-Cortez's Venezuela's "real" problem list, because they had the audacity to collude with the United States in trying to provide "tons of food, medicine and other aid" to Venezuelans, but "Maduro has shut down the country's border with Brazil and threatens to do the same with Colombia to try to stop foreign aid from crossing into the country", because "according to Maduro Venezuela is not a nation of beggars. "

Maduro is a monster but neither she nor Bernie could find it in their minds and hearts to condemn him. 

Showalter went on to say:

“New York's a blue city in a blue state and has been that way for decades. It has the highest state tax rate in the nation. Countless social programs and bureaucracy expansions in the name of "social justice" and "fairness" have made the city a cesspit of taxation, squeezing honest people like Ocasio-Cortez's mother out.

But now we find she has some corruption problems. Thomas Lifson reports that her campaign had illegal control of a PAC fund.  But it gets worse, it appears a million dollars has disappeared in an attempt to circumvent campaign finance laws.

Lifson continues:

"Tom Anderson, director of NLPC's Government Integrity Project.  "In all my years of studying FEC reports, I've never seen a more ambitious operation to circumvent reporting requirements." He added that Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, "has been quite vocal in condemning so-called dark money, but her own campaign went to great lengths to avoid the sunlight of disclosure."

Apparently it didn't take long for another socialist to let their greed overwhelm their rhetoric, not in the least concerned about the disasters they leave in their wake. 

What I'm really curious about is who is behind her?  She's now become the real Speaker of the House shooting her mouth off about just about everything, and demonstrating she's just as stupid about everything else, not just economics.  In short, she's an ignorant obnoxious intellectual twit.  How is she getting away with this?  It seems to me that someone powerful has to be behind her.  Who is it?  

And it isn't just her.  Two Muslim freshmen Congresswomen are spouting racist and anti-semitic hate filled comments that would have been unthinkable even last year.  Who's behind them?  Why are they getting away with this, and why is Pelosi afraid to get on top of this? 

This is going to go deeper down the rabbit hole as time goes by and it's my belief it's going to get ugly!

Biden's Betrayal of SEALs should Doom Presidential Run

By Daniel John Sobieski March 4, 2019

Democrat Joe Biden has been lurking in the 2020 presidential shadows being presented by those with their 2020 fingers crossed as an adult in the romper room of pubescent progressives waiting for their Spartacus moments as they learn the complexities of basic math and leadership skills.

Biden was the top choice for 28 percent of likely Democratic primary voters surveyed in a recent University of Massachusetts Amherst poll, despite his not having declared a 2020 presidential bid.

Yet while critics of President Trump’s foreign policy accuse him of a degree of recklessness and immaturity that place the nation’s security at risk, Biden’s service in an administration that gave us the criminal negligence and incompetence of Benghazi, provides us with an example of why he should not be trusted with the nation’s security or the lives of its heroes.

As author and attorney David Shestoksas points out in his review of Betrayed: The Shocking The Shocking True Story of Extortion 17 as told by a Navy SEAL's Father, Biden betrayed the heroes that killed Osama Bin Laden to further his political ambitions:........ To Read More

Observations From the Back Row: 6-29-11

Why do anti-aviation group Plane Stupid, and perennial hippie hangout, Greenpeace hate Gaia?

This is from the Daily Bayonet….skewing the clueless since 2006. RK

Both Greenpeace and Plane Stupid celebrated when Heathrow airport’s planned third runway was cancelled, in part because of protests led by their merry bands of gap-year student activists who climbed all over things that didn’t belong to them. Greenpeace and Plane Stupid wants to save the planet from airlines, but it’s a cosmic rule that hippie action is always met by the equal and opposite force of unintended consequences.

Delays caused by restricted capacity at Heathrow comes at a high cost to the planet:

Sixty per cent of arrivals into Heathrow Airport are caught up in holding patterns above the capital, at a massive cost to the economy and great frustration to passengers. Figures compiled by air traffic control service NATS have revealed that jets circling for a cumulative 55 hours a day are burning 190 tons of fuel and discharging 600 tons of co2 into the skies above London, costing £119,000 in wasted fuel every day. You have to change a lot of light bulbs to save 600 tons of CO2.

If the planet was a living, breathing organism capable of sentient thought, it would probably shake the hippies off like so many fleas, just to save itself from the stupid. Take that, Gaia!

My Take – This statement has been shown to be imminently true. You can’t fix stupid!

EPA regulations — our economy’s golden goose? By Steve Milloy

Every dollar spent complying with federal regulations returned anywhere from $2.13 to $14.90 during the 2000s, according to a new report from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). EPA rules accounted for approximately 84% of this alleged regulatory largesse. Needless to say, the OMB report is total nonsense.

First, the OMB report is not a re-analysis of costs and benefits claimed by federal agencies or a retrospective analysis of actual costs and benefits. The report simply parrots and adds up what the hallucinatory agencies have previously claimed.   In particular and as we pointed out in “EPA’s Clean Air Act: Pretending air pollution is worse than it is,” EPA benefits estimates are LOL-ably wild, if not entirely imaginary.  It’s really sad that OMB — once a respected champion of cost-benefit analysis — has been reduced by the Obama administration to bootlicking arithmetic.

My Take - I recommend following the link to Steve’s analysis in, "EPA’s Clean Air Act: Pretending air pollution is worse than it is", you will find it fascinating. I find it hard to believe that these people would think even for a second that the insane could believe this nonsense. Under this rationale we would have to assume that the problem with the economy is that government isn't nearly big enough and that there are far too few regulations determining all that we do. Really? During the Wilson administration (which LITERALY turned into a fascist regime during WWI) they took pride in the fact that they eliminated, actually outlawed, "755 types of drills in their campaign to "strip from trade and industry the lumber of futile custom and the encrustation of useless variety" - as though one plow were the right plow for every field, as though one drill were the right drill for ever hole." These people never get it. This is what is necessary for innovation and advancement. That is the primary reason socialism ultimately fails everywhere in the world. Central planners cannot possible think as well or know as much as the other 99.9999999% (or whatever the number actually is) of the population. If a certain kind of drill is unnecessary the market place will fix that. No one will buy it. They don’t need some bureaucrat who went to college and then into government to tell them they don’t need it. RK

Owners of land taken over by feds getting day in court Supremes to review EPA decision it controls residential parcel in Idaho
"With this case, the Supreme Court confronts important issues for property rights and due process. When the government seizes control of your land, and you disagree with the justification, shouldn't you be allowed your day in court? Just as important, should EPA be a law unto itself, without meaningful accountability to the courts and the Constitution?"……..

And it's not just the Sacketts' land that could be subject to such orders. The foundation arguments suggest that private property across the nation could be at risk. The legal team noted that between 1980 and 2001, the EPA issued up to 3,000 compliance orders every year across the nation. "The reality of the Sacketts' situation is that they have been unambiguously commanded by their government not to complete their home-building project, to take expensive measures to undo the improvements that they have made to their land, and to maintain their land essentially as a public park until the property is 'restored' to the satisfaction of the EPA. They have been threatened with frightening penalties if they do not immediately obey; but they have been refused the prompt hearing they should have received as a matter of right in any court," Pacific Legal argued.

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