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Contributed by: Dave Schallert on 9/5/2008

Dummies are starting to affect me more and more in everyday life.

They work at Carl's Jr. where they don't recognize a U.S. dollar coin and think I'm trying to rip them off. Some Dummies decide to do massive reconstruction on Parker's Main Street during the peak season for customers of downtown Parker merchants. Overly-emotional Dummies attend health care forums and don't know what they're talking about because their emotions run rampant over reason and discussion. Dummies take out risky loans they don't understand and then get foreclosed on, walk on their houses, and lower the value of all the non-Dummies around them who acted responsibly and who had the basic math skills necessary to understand the concept of "affordability." And Dummies tend to kill the messenger when (being Dummies and lacking any type of ability to present facts or reasoned opinion) they disagree with the message.

I'm aware there's TONS of stuff I don't know and that I've only walked in my own shoes in life. I'm aware that everyone brings something unique to the table and to life...but that uniqueness is less useful and is becoming more shallow and vapid to the point that a semi-literate discussion based on facts (mostly w/ young adults) can't occur. It's all emotion...and heaven forbid if you say or believe something different from what a young Dummy believes.

So I believe that this story today in the Wall Street Journal
( http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122058290122002661.html?mod=taste_primary_hs)

takes on a larger importance this year given our country's Presidential Election in November 2008.

Our United States is a democratic Representative Republic (note to the Dummies: The United States isn't a "democracy". A pure "democracy" is where 3 wolves and 2 sheep take a vote on what to eat...get it?). In our Republic, people are elected to "represent" the views/voices of a majority of their constituents. However the whole system tends to break down if the constituents are Dummies. The whole system places a heavy reliance on the populace not being Dummies. Dummies w/ no accurate and factual knowledge of history (I emphasize" accurate" and " factual") make voting decisions that have the potential to impact large segments of the population that aren't so dumb. OK so far...even here it's 1 person or Dummy, 1 Vote.

But it becomes problematic when the Dummies can't explain their views or their choices because those views and choices are based on emotions or because they want "change"... ANY change.

When I was in school not that long ago, you could actually fail...meaning you could actually receive report cards with "D"'s and "F"'s on them. And you could be held back in school to repeat the grade(s) you failed because you were a Dummy. There was one Valedictorian because there was one person in your graduating class who was smarter than all the others based on a then meaningful GPA. In short, there were varying degrees of shame and consequence involved in being a Dummy.

That's not the case anymore. Not only do the Dummies progress and breeze through the shallow curriculum of the public schools, but so do the relatively non-Dumb...and none of them are learning enough about civics and history unless they are doing it on their own or through their family life.

Most folks (maybe not the Dummies though) have heard the saying that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Well...if history and civics aren't being TAUGHT, then history and civics aren't being LEARNED.

But the law of the land is that even Dummies can vote at age 18...long before they graduate from Dummyhood these days.

God help us if the Dummies get their way this year and help elect a Marxist to the White House.

(P.S. To the Dummies...that's Karl Marx, not Groucho Marx or the toy company. If you're curious enough, look him up! He and Engels...great guys!).

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Dave Schallert

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