Stupid Voters Are The Biggest Threat To America
M.D. Kittle
Too many ‘progressives’ would rather take out Trump than stop socialists from burning down the republic. Now that’s stupid.
The republic Benjamin Franklin wondered if we could keep is in trouble. Big trouble.
It’s been trending that way for a while, but this Election Day could put a bullet in the old girl’s stomach.
The polls don’t necessarily worry me. They have been little more than psyops aimed at depressing conservative turnout in the Trump era. Who could forget this gem from the Des Moines Register in early November 2024: “Kamala Harris leapfrogs Donald Trump to take lead near Election Day”. The president won Iowa by 13 percentage points, swept all seven swing states and grabbed the popular vote on the way to GOP control of the White House and Congress.
What worries me are voters. Sadly, many of them are stupid. And angry. Dean Vernon Wormer of National Lampoon’s Animal House advised, “Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life.” The same applies for the furious and the dumb. For a constitutional republic, it’s a lethal cocktail.
‘The American Experiment is Over’
We have millions of Americans heading to the polls who believe socialism will make their lives more affordable. That price controls and government takeover of private industry will ease inflation and cure what ails capitalism, so abhorrent to their central planning sensibilities.
That’s idiocy on a dangerous scale. A Venezuelan scale.
Oil-rich Venezuela went from one of Latin America’s wealthiest countries to its poorest within the span of about 30 years. From one of the highest standards of living in the world to starving Venezuelans eating zoo animals. The common denominator: socialism. The reigns of Hugo Chavez and successor Nicolas Maduro turned a once prosperous, oil rich democracy into a tropical hellscape within two decades.
The collapse happened right before our eyes, within our lifetimes.
Cuba is much closer. Just 90 miles separates the squalor of communist Cuba and the free state of Florida — and the overall prosperity of America.
So it’s heartbreaking to those who have survived and escaped such regimes to know that a whopping 43 percent of Americans now hold a positive view of socialism, according to a Gallup poll released earlier this fall. The troubling number marks the first time socialism garnered more than 39 percent support in the poll since 2010, during Democrat Barack Obama’s first presidential term.
Socialism’s rise in popularity is cause for deep concern.
“If a majority of Americans think that socialism is the right path, well the American experiment is over in a sense. It would be very, very difficult to recover from that. That’s a multi-generational recovery kind of thing,” Charles Steele, director of the Center for Commerce and Freedom at Hillsdale College, told me on a recent episode of The Federalist Radio Hour.