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9. I think we need to differentiate between

Reply to stevenleser (Original post)

Sat May 5, 2012, 12:07 PM

May 2012

stupid and malevolent. Stupid would be the teabaggers, but Grover Norquist and the Brothers Koch and most of the Republican leadership are no dummies. Intelligenge doesn't preclude an authoritarian, winner take all bent.

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Explanation for Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin and George W. Bush's opinions of themselves? Dunning-Kruger [View all] stevenleser May 2012 OP

Kindly include Gov. Rick Perry with this elite group Zambero May 2012 #1

Agreed. All of them fit. stevenleser May 2012 #3

why stop there? unblock May 2012 #6

I think most are willfully corrupt rather than incompetent. They choose to fuck us over. nt valerief May 2012 #11

i agree they are willfully corrupt as far as their positions go. but they're incompetent unblock May 2012 #19

Mentally lazy and incurious maybe. Incompetent makes it sound like they valerief May 2012 #23

The willfully corrupt are usrname May 2012 #20

And those guys are only the agents for the truly corrupt--the gazillionaires who run the planet. nt valerief May 2012 #24

allen west, too SemperEadem May 2012 #7

I linked this in edhopper May 2012 #2

i agree with dunning-kruger, but more important is the anti-intellectualism in politics unblock May 2012 #4

the electorate who are brainwashed, by and large SemperEadem May 2012 #8

I disagree. grasswire May 2012 #5

I think we need to differentiate between pscot May 2012 #9

Totally agree with you maddiemom May 2012 #14

I've long had an aphorism that describes these people Alcibiades May 2012 #10

A D-K rehash is always welcome nt MrScorpio May 2012 #12

Yup, too fucking stupid to even know they're stupid! 11 Bravo May 2012 #13

Smart people are stupid TrogL May 2012 #15

Or just basing their facts on a belief system IDemo May 2012 #16

This message was self-deleted by its author LASlibinSC May 2012 #21

uhh..What is K-W? LASlibinSC May 2012 #22

D-K, not K-W IDemo May 2012 #25

Thank you..my bad! LASlibinSC May 2012 #26

The Lake Wobegon Effect. Odin2005 May 2012 #17

I agree. There are things about various subjects that I realize I don't know enough about to know what I don't know. LASlibinSC May 2012 #18

More on Dunning Kruger no_hypocrisy May 2012 #27

Great link, thank you! LASlibinSC May 2012 #28

Don't laugh. Found it on my F/B page when I woke up. no_hypocrisy May 2012 #29

The 1% aren't incompetent, and they generally get the best gov't they can buy. leveymg May 2012 #30

But it does apply to many of those they put in power. stevenleser May 2012 #31

Bush the Lesser comes to mind first, of course. leveymg May 2012 #32