They Say, The Others Say and I Say...

The Republicans say "If we leave Iraq, it will be overrun by Iraqis."




The Democrats say "Seriously, these guys CAN'T be winning these elections fairly. The American people just CAN'T be that goddamned stupid."




I say "Wanna bet?"




This is yet another exercise in the applied science of the use of false binary equations to achieve a desired, pre-determined result. The 'fair and balanced' debate is framed in a way which is carefully designed to give you a contrived choice between two incorrect, incomplete or non-applicable answers, kinda' like "you're either with us or you're with the terrorists" or being forced to choose between two Presidential candidates every four years, based COMPLETELY on a childish "smart vs. strong" push-poll.

The fact is that, in all of these situations, the two concepts aren't mutually exclusive. Clinical studies, scientific research, commonly quoted statistics and even your own every day observations show you the obvious truths; that smart people are NOT weaker than stupid people, that you CAN oppose bad American leaders without joining Al Qaeda or any other right-wing Army of God, that the Republicans really DO cheat elections on a size, scope and scale that defies the public's severely limited comprehension, but that Republicans DO NOT cheat because they have to, they do it because they like to cheat. The Republicans are criminals. (Duh!)

But the saddest of the factual non-exclusive assertions above ALSO remains just as true: Sometimes, on certain subjects, the American people really ARE pretty goddamned stupid.