Gullibility

[johnridley]

Was watching the Daily Show yesterday. They were talking to some amazingly stupid people outside a Palin rally. I realize that it's the job of the Daily Show to find morons to parade, but it was still scary.

These people seemed to be completely serious when they said that if Obama was elected, he'd walk into the White House in a turban, drop the border security and we'd be overrun with islamic terrorists overnight, and America as we know it would fall immediately. They really seemed to honestly believe every piece of ridiculous garbage that's been fed to them.

Not only that, but they seem to believe that the president would even have the power to do such a thing.

The amount of misinformation that seems to be spreading underground is absolutely amazing. There is a whole underground out there that believes that neither Obama nor McCain are eligible to run for president because Obama was born in Kenya (he wasn't) and McCain was born in Panama (true, but on a US base, so that's OK).

These people are really working themselves into a froth. The sad part is, I can see what's underneath it. They're terrified of black people and won't admit it.

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[rmeidaking.livejournal.com]

I wrote a response, but decided I didn't want to submit it to eternity. The synopsis is: They're worried that blacks aren't going to be the underclass anymore, and that leaves, er, themselves to be in that position.

Both black people and white people have gotten a lot of mileage out of the idea that black = poor. Barack Obama is challenging that equation.