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Remember that these GOP reps are in fact representing an electorate that is dumbed down as far as can be and still be able to find their polling place. This happened in general through the incremental cuts to our education system that have now compounded to give us an electorate which Walter Cronkite opined no longer has the critical reasoning skills to pick a candidate from reasoned debate and inquiry. But even more significantly, this has happened by creating such a mess of the political system starting in 1994 that most rational voters were alientated out, replaced by the dregs whipped into a know-nothing frenzy by right wing talk radio and Fox. We know from the Annenberg School research of talk radio that these dupes hold completely false views on almost every issue yet with such intensity that it motivates them to vote more than any other Americans. So we are screwed, stuck with a small dumb-as-rocks electorate at a time where even a large educated electorate would be challenged to get to the truth on issues where the country's survival is literally hanging by a thread. Welcome to Redneck America, bane of the civilized world. Best to go out of business for all concerned?
