McCain's 'Real-ly Stupid' America
John McCain and his advisers apparently have latched on to a final hope: that enough voters won’t do the math about tax plans or carefully evaluate the guilt-by-association smears before they go to the polls, that they’ll just vote their gut reactions to scary words, like “socialism” and “Kha-lah-di.”
The McCain-Palin political calculation is based on a lowest-common-denominator judgment about the American people.
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The political success candidates for the most important position in the world have had by repeatedly chanting scarecrow words (that is, words meant to scare voters away from a candidate) that are not only lies, but would be empty charges even if true, illustrates the greatest American need for the survival and flourishing of democracy -- greater education in critical reasoning.