tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post849628205788882921..comments2024-01-28T22:16:50.852-06:00Comments on Mr. Dilettante’s Neighborhood: Hillary HooverMr. Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13920907647566015611noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-21150412952947031552016-08-17T18:08:47.064-05:002016-08-17T18:08:47.064-05:00Unfortunately correct, but it's worse than tha...Unfortunately correct, but it's worse than that. IF the electorate wanted to be informed and cast an informed vote, where would they get the information?jerrye92002https://www.blogger.com/profile/01858692298982859775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-88306870052615408612016-08-17T17:03:26.517-05:002016-08-17T17:03:26.517-05:00How does one account for the mass insanity of cont...<i>How does one account for the mass insanity of continually voting for Democrats who promise faithfully not to solve problems, and then deliver "solutions" that make the problem worse? </i><br /><br />Same reason that TV shows go seven minutes between commercials, really. Very limited attention span and lack of logic instruction in the schools. More or less, the reasons that the Founders limited the franchise to landowners--like or hate the prosperous, they at least have a better chance of having demonstrated the mental habits required to obtain and keep land.<br />Bike Bubbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08193546045614393425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-53385631465772619232016-08-12T17:45:27.646-05:002016-08-12T17:45:27.646-05:00That's why Ben Franklin said, "[we have] ...That's why Ben Franklin said, "[we have] a Republic, if you can keep it." <br />And why Jefferson said, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." <br /><br />What is happening today is that we are being KEPT ignorant of our government and of our candidates. Jefferson believed that when things got too far out of whack people would notice and act to change them. I'm seeing the first, but not the second. I mean, 40-some percent still say they're voting for Hillary.jerrye92002https://www.blogger.com/profile/01858692298982859775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-82229042534559490562016-08-12T12:57:09.453-05:002016-08-12T12:57:09.453-05:00How does one account for the mass insanity of cont...<i>How does one account for the mass insanity of continually voting for Democrats who promise faithfully not to solve problems, and then deliver "solutions" that make the problem worse?</i><br /><br /><br />"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."<br />-- H.L. Mencken<br />Mr. Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13920907647566015611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-91166555672723166762016-08-12T10:03:04.006-05:002016-08-12T10:03:04.006-05:00Economists and actuaries will start dying in stran...Economists and actuaries will start dying in strange accidents.3john2https://www.blogger.com/profile/05359114327414576258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-2782499667531184882016-08-12T09:34:43.014-05:002016-08-12T09:34:43.014-05:00How does one account for the mass insanity of cont...How does one account for the mass insanity of continually voting for Democrats who promise faithfully not to solve problems, and then deliver "solutions" that make the problem worse? jerrye92002https://www.blogger.com/profile/01858692298982859775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-56040585109687735412016-08-12T06:02:13.331-05:002016-08-12T06:02:13.331-05:00A total meltdown, the pitchforks will out...Trump ...A total meltdown, the pitchforks will out...Trump wins 2016 in a 58 state landslide!!!Ginohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09606046924332159076noreply@blogger.com