We the Suckers: The truth about US voters

Posted by | February 13, 2016 18:30 | Filed under: Media/Show Business News Behaving Badly Politics

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I’ve got your weekend think piece right here!

Ben Fountain, writing in The Guardian, tells it like it is about the gullible American electorate:

Let the record reflect: the American people are a bunch of suckers. “Weapons of mass destruction.” “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” “Read my lips.” “I am not a crook.” “We still seek no wider war.” And these whoppers are merely a sampling from a handful of recent presidents.

Fountain puts some thought-provoking historical perspective on the phenomenon, tracing the history of American credulity in the media era from “Pappy” O’Daniel to Joe McCarthy to the current crop of candidates. Go read!

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Copyright 2016 Liberaland
By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.

12 responses to We the Suckers: The truth about US voters

  1. amersham46 February 13th, 2016 at 19:16

    This article should be mandatory reading for every voter

  2. Suzanne McFly February 13th, 2016 at 19:33

    They have so many shady statements made by leaders from the last 50 years, but not one of those statements can be placed on the current President. You would think someone that is so evil would have some criminal behavior they could pin on him and yet, they don’t .

    • mistlesuede February 14th, 2016 at 00:22

      That’s what makes him so hated by the right. They just can’t touch him and it kills them.

  3. Warman1138 February 13th, 2016 at 20:40

    Excellent read, excellent.

  4. maggie February 14th, 2016 at 01:00

    true

  5. StoneyCurtisll February 14th, 2016 at 02:04

    Off Topic…
    On the lighter side of life…
    What is Love?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkUGSNNy4dI

  6. StoneyCurtisll February 14th, 2016 at 02:05

    Another High Five to Dr. Gonzo~!

  7. rg9rts February 14th, 2016 at 04:09

    a nation of sound bite voters

  8. Hirightnow February 14th, 2016 at 07:19

    Good article.

  9. eyelashviper February 14th, 2016 at 09:15

    Thanks for posting this fine article, it should be read by all sentient Americans.
    Everyone should be concerned about the very issues addressed here, as it seems that voter stupidity and media irresponsibility are at all time highs.

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