Ignorance Rules and Absolute Ignorance Reigns Absolutely
Bob Cesca, HuffPo [excerpt]

The McBush Republicans don't just take pride in their ignorance -- their entire electoral strategy depends on it.
This is obviously a risky strategy given the existence of things like "reason", "facts" and "truth" -- each readily available to anyone who's industrious enough to seek them out. Fortunately, though, for the McBush Republicans, there's an outside collaborator working in their favor: the barbecue media whose success also depends greatly upon both ignorance and disingenuousness (Olbermann and others excluded). Paraphrasing Woody Allen, ignorance and disingenuousness are, collectively, their various breads and various butters. So the Republicans have a convenient and sizeable zero-barrier of protective stupid surrounding their golf courses and mansions and trophy wives, shielding them from reality. Let's call it the Great Wall of Duh.
When ignorance reigns, absolute ignorance rules absolutely. After 40 years of Neanderthal rule, how many voters realize our CIA has murdered six millions Third World inhabitants? The FBI has sold nuclear secrets to potential enemies. With a Congress unable to impeach the powerful, who is to worry about a little disinformation economics?

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