America- Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest

Hat tip David E.

Guest Post by Donald Jeffries

I’m taking the gloves completely off here. I’ve inferred that Americans collectively are pretty gullible and naive. I’ve invoked comparisons to Mike Judge’s movie Idiocracy. But it’s time to simply tell it like it is: the majority of present-day Americans are stupid beyond belief.

This doesn’t include all the increasing number of “awake” people out there, but it certainly does include the newly coined “woke” folk, who seem to be sleeping more soundly than the average American dupe. Ironically, a lot of these “woke” Americans are “mad as hell” but their anger is focused exclusively on Donald Trump. They figure if they can just get him to go away, things will be back to normal. “Normal” being the kind of nonstop corruption I wrote about in Hidden History. 

My bleak assessment has some scientific evidence to back it up. Even mainstream sources report that IQ scores all over the world have been dropping for decades. Some estimates put the IQ drop at about 7 points for each subsequent generation born after 1975. These studies were centered in Norway, or other parts of the western world. My guess is that the average American IQ, if anything, has decreased more sharply than that.

There are plenty of factors here. The increased consumption of processed foods, poisonous preservatives, GMO products, and the constant stress everyone is subjected to by the modern world have all contributed. Insipid and offensive films and television shows, dishonest state-run media, and wrong-headed public school systems were even more crucial in dumbing down the populace. Nonstop propaganda- really brainwashing- has turned many Americans into unthinking, unquestioning sheep who lack both empathy and a moral compass.

Consider all that Americans have permitted over just the last thirty years. They fell for the “invasion” of Kuwait nonsense, and were ready to send their children to die in a place they wouldn’t have been able to locate on a map the week before. They parroted the mainstream media line about Saddam Hussein being a “brutal” madman, when they previously wouldn’t have been able to identify him. They fell for the “babies in incubators” line from the crying young girl, and didn’t blink when she was exposed as the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador lobbying for war.

Enough Americans bought Bill Clinton’s obsequious “I feel your pain” charade to elect him president twice. They ignored the growing body count and the outrageous corruption that began in Arkansas during his tenure as governor, as studiously as the fawning mainstream media did.

We crossed one of those important moral lines in the sand when the majority of Americans stood by silently as armored tanks demolished a home (smeared continuously in the media as a “compound”) and poured deadly gas banned by the Geneva Convention inside, killing civilians that included a large number of children. What happened at Waco should have garnered impeachment charges against Bill Clinton, with criminal charges to follow. Instead, the inventor of identity politics was re-elected, and continued to garner almost 100 percent support from Hollywood.

Americans accepted the ridiculous magical fertilizer bomb theory at Oklahoma City, and cheered when patsy Timothy McVeigh was executed in record time. They swallowed the “JFK Jr. was reckless” accidental death theory in 1999, and no one exposed the truth about this latest Kennedy assassination until I investigated and wrote about it in Hidden History. 

On September 11, 2001, we crossed a line that will be very difficult to step back from. Up until that point, no steel frame high rise had ever collapsed from fire. On that day, three did- including Building 7, which was not struck by any aircraft. Since then, no building has. A magical day indeed, and one which exposed the new collective stupidity of Americans, as they stared transfixed at their television screens, as military “expert” after military “expert” told them that the “terrorists” had done this, and nothing would ever be the same.

The majority of Americans accepted that nineteen crazed Arabs, who admittedly were not qualified to fly planes, executed this terrorist plot flawlessly, led by the new bogeyman, Osama Bin Laden, from his secretive cave lair. The odious, unconstitutional Patriot Act was quickly passed, with virtually no opposition from any public figure, and the unconstitutional Homeland Security Department was created. “Free speech zones” became all the rage, without a peep of protest outside the world of “conspiracy theorists.”

Before 9/11, the majority of Americans accepted the results of the dubious 2000 presidential election, which featured the first widespread mention of “hanging chads” and suggestions of voter fraud. I exposed the long history of American electoral corruption in Hidden History. The ballot box lost any significance it had long ago. Even if they counted the votes honestly, no honest candidates are ever permitted to run for president in either “opposing” party. As Huey Long said before they killed him, you have a choice between Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

Dubya Bush, despite severe deficiencies as a politician, was elected twice by the American people. He continued to dismantle what some of us call America 1.0, a job Bill Clinton did yeoman work on. Unbridled illegal crossings from the southern border, expanded Visa worker programs, unprecedented corporate greed, and the further weakening of unions contributed to a glaring disparity of wealth, lowered wages and decreased benefits for the poor and working class.

The election of Barack Obama represented a politically correct coronation. Bill Clinton’s “feel your pain” mantra found full fruition in the election of a half-black man with little personal history and monumental secrecy surrounding his past. Obama’s election first exposed the now massive cultural gap in the country. Half of America was ecstatic to see someone who wasn’t white elected as president, for no other reason than the fact he wasn’t white. Any criticism of Obama, who continued the dastardly nonstop war, corporate welfare policies of his predecessors, was instantly branded as “racist.”

Obama infuriated that segment of the population who bought into Donald Trump’s populist rhetoric. Many independents like myself were attracted to Trump’s often revolutionary comments as well. Obviously, over halfway through his first term, Trump has further divided the country, and become a lightning rod for all political discourse. The same people that loved Obama for being nonwhite and nothing else, despise Donald Trump because he seems so much like the old white guys who used to run this country.

This is merely a sampling of the tyranny Americans have permitted, just in recent times. I could have mentioned the ultimate corporate giveaway, when despite 95 percent of them opposing it in every poll, the biggest banks- those dubbed “too big to fail” by our state-run media, were bailed out by taxpayers after the 2008 economic crisis. If the banks want to be bailed out again, Americans will stand by politely. There will be no yellow jackets in the streets of America 2.0.

A movement like Brexit would not be possible in America, because a majority of our citizens still buy into the collective narrative, that there are no conspiracies, and our leaders are basically decent people with good intentions. Iceland threw their bankers in jail. I have tried to get Americans to even understand the counterfeit nature of our criminal fractional banking system, but most just don’t care.

I live in one of the richest counties in the country. Our roads are Third World quality, and our power grids are a joke. Power goes out here in a mild wind or simple rainfall. Many members of Congress drive the same roads I do, and yet they do nothing to upgrade them. Our infrastructure has not effectively been updated since the Eisenhower years. At least Trump talked about that, but again nothing has been done. Blame it on “partisan politics.” That’s what our state-run media does.

It’s not pleasant to call people stupid. After all, you wind up essentially calling yourself superior, and sounding elitist. But what else can you say about people who bought into the state-sanctioned, mainstream media driven “Russian collusion” conspiracy theory? The same Americans who can’t accept that 9/11 was an “inside job” believe that “the Russians” somehow “hacked” our election and denied us all the wonderful opportunity a Hillary Clinton presidency would have represented.

We’ve known the facts about the lack of intellect in our country for quite a while. All those “person in the street” interviews, done by everyone from Jay Leno to “conspiracy theorist” Mark Dice, demonstrate all too clearly just how ignorant the average American is. Many Americans seem to revel in their stupidity.

If Mike Judge’s film Idiocracy is now seen as an unfortunate prophecy, what does the huge popularity of the movie Dumb and Dumber demonstrate?

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not sure
not sure
June 6, 2019 7:20 am

Hard to argue against any of his points. The trajectory of America’s downfall since the invasion of Kuwait has gone unabated; regardless of the political party occupying the White House.

America- Dumb and Dummer and Dummest should be a companion article, read after reading any of UnCola’s reporting on the status of Trump’s current political wrangling’s with the democrats threats of impeachment and now prison. The future of the country seems so mysterious and uncertain as to what the outcome will be, until one looks at the last 30 years of lies and corruption and suddenly, the future becomes clear; we’re screwed.

Mygirl...maybe
Mygirl...maybe
  not sure
June 6, 2019 7:22 pm

Pandering to the lowest common denominator was the point at which the dumbing down of the country started. Affirmative action, the Great Society, forced integration, and…television.

Steve
Steve
June 6, 2019 7:38 am

Hopefully the apocalypse that is now underway will clear out the coastal idiots, leaving those who had the foresight to prep for the coming meltdown and flyover USA to pick up the pieces and press restart. I can dream can’t I?

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr
June 6, 2019 7:44 am

Great work. I want to add that most people are so ignorant of science that they believe political lies like Global Warming caused by CO2, the Out of Africa nonsense, that Diversity is a Strength, and environment is responsible for Blacks problems and Welfare is the solution. CO2 is a lagging indicator, people were all over the World before 60 thousand ears ago, Blacks are a mixture of various primitive hominoids and H. Sapiens and generally have a much lower IQ than other races. When I started teaching, I thought I could inspire and teach Blacks Math and Science but I discovered I couldn’t; mostly they were never interested, could not grasp the more difficult concepts and their minds were on other things. It is not the teacher or societies fault. We spent trillions trying to give Blacks a skill, discriminated against other races, and we created a monster of a social problem while our Infrastructure and culture crumbled all around us. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

John Galt
John Galt
June 6, 2019 8:02 am

Certainly seems no matter a dem or republican they are all marching us like sheep to some destined way of life. Bush certainly did much more than Clinton could even imagine, moving us into a 1984 like State. The Patriot Act is so subversive to the Constitution and the American way of life but nobody reads it nor cares. So, I for one, hope they (american sheeple) all get what they deserve. Let them frolick and wonder why and whats happening and maybe when they see, what they denounced as conspiracy theory and ignored, was the needed info to deter their own demise. Then, maybe the purple revolution can spark. No black or white, no left or right, when everyone is starving in a Mad Max world only fools pick sides and fights with people in their own situation, rather than look to, and focus their anger upon the elite that have used govt, corps, false flags to maintain their hold over you, all. Then, together, a united front of David’s may clash and destroy Goliath. So it can start all over again for another 4 generations as history is so replete.

Lager
Lager
June 6, 2019 8:06 am

I had a couple thoughts while reading this post.
Ironic, how truly ‘woke’ people, in the very small minority, who are quite aware of all the utter BS we are wading through, are seen by the ignorant majority as gullible to wild conspiracy theories. Tin foil hats etc.
Truth. A disappearing relic of the past.

Another thought was re: Clinton, & Hollywood’s support.
I remember how Alec Baldwin painted Reagan as a complete idiot for asking if ketchup could be considered a vegetable, in gov guidelines for providing free lunches in public schools.
Ronnie had his flaws, certainly.
A good study of his pros and cons as Prez might be interesting.
But, while in the Oval Office, Reagan reportedly wouldn’t even take off his suit coat, out of respect for the Office of the Presidency.
Contrast that, with Slick getting hummers from an intern there, and using cigars as props.
And Vernan Jordan, when piqued about what him and Clinton discussed on the golf course, reportedly answered ‘pussy’.
Hmm. No uproar from Hollywood then.
Yet when Trump’s off the record comment about grabbing it during his early playboy years surfaced, the Dems, feminists, and Hollywood are, and remain appalled.

Hypocrisy shows the arrogance of the true gullibles, who pontificate about a moral compass when judging politicians, and right vs. wrong.

CCRider
CCRider
June 6, 2019 8:23 am

I’m not sure stupidity is entirely at fault, although it certainly plays a major role TPTB rely upon. I’m sure there’s a brain surgeon somewhere in Utah still waiting for the angel maroni to return. There’s something else at play. It might be the herd instinct hard wired in us that gets smart people to act stupidly-like voting. Forget dumb people. They’re irrelevant. It’s more fruitful to work on people who will be open to the real message here-the farce of authority.

ragman
ragman
June 6, 2019 9:19 am

Asshole fails to mention immigration which is arguably the biggest contributor to our dumbing down. WTF does he expect, that 40 or 50 million IQ 70 Squatemalans will raise our collective IQ? Our replacements can’t read or write. Many don’t even speak Spanish, instead they speak some combination of bullshit dialects that might as well be Klingon. And it’s only going to get worse. Unlike the AH, I live in one of the poorest counties in the country in Western NC. However, the roads are excellent, the electricity never goes off and the hillbillies can clear the roads almost immediately after a heavy snowstorm. The people are poor but proud. And the county is 97% White. Do ya think that might have something to do with it?

Mil Mascaras (EC)
Mil Mascaras (EC)
  ragman
June 6, 2019 9:37 am

Asshole fails to mention immigration which is arguably the biggest contributor to our dumbing down. – raggy

Unbridled illegal crossings from the southern border, expanded Visa worker programs, unprecedented corporate greed, and the further weakening of unions contributed to a glaring disparity of wealth, lowered wages and decreased benefits for the poor and working class. – From the article

Mushroom Cloud
Mushroom Cloud
  Mil Mascaras (EC)
June 6, 2019 5:56 pm

Well it certainly wouldn’t hurt to mention the southern invasion of Squatamalans a few more times for the daft people out there who don’t see how big of a problem it really is…

Mil Mascaras (EC)
Mil Mascaras (EC)
  Mushroom Cloud
June 6, 2019 6:50 pm

With all the new voters, I feel dumber already, Mushy.

“I felt a great disturbance in the Freedom, as if millions of voters suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”

yahsure
yahsure
June 6, 2019 9:30 am

Sounds about right. The many people who now want socialism just shows how ill-informed and stupid people are. The idea that gov. can get anything done well or cheaper is laughable.

Bat Guano
Bat Guano
June 6, 2019 10:28 am

Mike Judge’s film Idiocracy , originally a comedy, has been reclassified as a documentary.

MSyzlak
MSyzlak
June 6, 2019 2:13 pm

I can’t fault the article or any of the comments; but I’m with CCRider — there’s more to our population’s gullibility than just a dropping IQ. For years I’ve known, and wondered at, otherwise intelligent people who continue to believe preposterous things simply because those things are a part of a “mainstream narrative”.

How many “liberals” have you met who clearly have high IQs, but who persist in their faith in the most egregious of leftist ideologies. No, people are conditioned to turn off, or wall-off, the part of the brain that does actual thinking where certain topics are concerned. This can happen to anyone (including you or me), and can be done with conscious intent; but when the conditioning is subconscious and so uniform and pervasive across 99.9% of a populace, you’ve got a problem … and it’s not declining IQs.

On the other hand, neither an endogenous dumbing down, nor the importation of massive numbers of low-IQ immigrants helps matters.

As Not Sure says, … we’re screwed.

Jason Calley
Jason Calley
  MSyzlak
June 7, 2019 12:37 pm

“No, people are conditioned to turn off, or wall-off, the part of the brain that does actual thinking where certain topics are concerned.”

Very true, even within the small fraction of people who have the ability to think. Most people find thinking so difficult and painful that they do not have the ability.

NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte
June 6, 2019 3:43 pm

America- Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest: A Pictorial Guide

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Mushroom Cloud
Mushroom Cloud
June 6, 2019 5:48 pm

Up here in Canada, we are taught that “diversity is our strength”…

KaD
KaD
June 6, 2019 6:22 pm

I wonder how much importing hordes of black and brown people and encouraging miscegenation has to do with the falling IQ’s.

Mil Mascaras (EC)
Mil Mascaras (EC)
  KaD
June 6, 2019 6:51 pm

Has your IQ fallen, KaD?