Friday, October 31, 2008

Read This Before You Vote

The Triumph of Ignorance: Why morons succeed in US politics.
It wasn’t always like this. The founding fathers of the republic - men like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams and Alexander Hamilton - were among the greatest thinkers of their age. They felt no need to make a secret of it. How did the project they launched degenerate into George W Bush and Sarah Palin?

An excellent post. Go read.

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