Trajan12
Deity
I was reading an article about Obama's potential downfalls that the Republicans could exploit when I saw quite possibly the most damning evidence that America holds a bias against intelligence that I've seen yet.
Obama being seen as an 'intellectual' was actually one of the things people said would be a drawback...
In a country where we've gotten used to hearing small segments of the big picture twisted out of context, where we make decisions based on 30 second "Good Guy- Bad Guy" attack ads, where most people's political knowledge extends to soundbytes of rehashed black and white dichotomy rhetoric; Perhaps a candidate with nuanced opinions just won't cut it with America?
Consider the flag pin issue: Obama took the time to say that he thought waving the flag was a poor substitute for actual patriotism, and now our collective head is short circuiting and accusations of him being unpatriotic are taking steam.
Obama takes the time to explain that black and white people in this country have legitimate grievances and that sweeping either side under the rug is only a band aid. How many people focused on the fact that you don't hear something like that from a Presidential candidate everyday?
Obama explains that people are 'bitter' at their leaders because their economic problems have gone years and years without being relieved. Their 'biter' because politicians use wedge issues like the 2nd amendment, social issues with religious context such as abortion and gay marriage, and fear mongering about immigrants to get the people riled up about everything BUT their rising gas prices or their failing education system or their hurting economy.
Once again, the only thing that becomes a story is a tabloid-like twisting of the context.
Has America really damned itself to be a country run for idiots by idiots?
P.S. I'm not going to debate about any of those actual issues as they've been done to death and I'll ask you to refrain as well. For the 'hard of reading', the topic at hand is about America's attitude toward intellectualism and nuance in politics vs its complacency with simplified rhetoric and wedge issues.
Obama being seen as an 'intellectual' was actually one of the things people said would be a drawback...
In a country where we've gotten used to hearing small segments of the big picture twisted out of context, where we make decisions based on 30 second "Good Guy- Bad Guy" attack ads, where most people's political knowledge extends to soundbytes of rehashed black and white dichotomy rhetoric; Perhaps a candidate with nuanced opinions just won't cut it with America?
Consider the flag pin issue: Obama took the time to say that he thought waving the flag was a poor substitute for actual patriotism, and now our collective head is short circuiting and accusations of him being unpatriotic are taking steam.
Obama takes the time to explain that black and white people in this country have legitimate grievances and that sweeping either side under the rug is only a band aid. How many people focused on the fact that you don't hear something like that from a Presidential candidate everyday?
Obama explains that people are 'bitter' at their leaders because their economic problems have gone years and years without being relieved. Their 'biter' because politicians use wedge issues like the 2nd amendment, social issues with religious context such as abortion and gay marriage, and fear mongering about immigrants to get the people riled up about everything BUT their rising gas prices or their failing education system or their hurting economy.
Once again, the only thing that becomes a story is a tabloid-like twisting of the context.
Has America really damned itself to be a country run for idiots by idiots?
P.S. I'm not going to debate about any of those actual issues as they've been done to death and I'll ask you to refrain as well. For the 'hard of reading', the topic at hand is about America's attitude toward intellectualism and nuance in politics vs its complacency with simplified rhetoric and wedge issues.
