That brilliant movie philosopher Forrest Gump said it best: “Stupid is as stupid does.” This nugget of wisdom highlights the problem of the typical Leftist, both Democrat and Republican. By and large, they don’t learn from their mistakes.
And that, frankly, means they’re just on that low end of the left side of the intellectual bell curve.
Albert Einstein is credited with the saying that the definition of insanity was doing the same failed thing over and over, and expecting a different result. But Einstein was wrong, for this is not about insanity.
Take for example the typical Massachusetts ex-pat, who flees their Leftist “paradise” to move to New Hampshire. These “flat landers,” as natives of New Hampshire call them, moved north to escape high crime, high taxes, and excess regulations. So, what do these “flat landers” do when they become residents of the Granite State? They vote for politicians who support soft-on-crime policies, higher taxes in every category imaginable, and more government regulations. Did these people learn anything? Of course not.
Benjamin Franklin wrote that “experience is a dear teacher.” He didn’t say “good,” because experiencing failure is costly, that is, “dear.” It is much better to learn what works and doesn’t work from people who have already experienced such things. That’s why smart people are also readers and observers of others. They prefer to learn vicariously, rather than through their own mistakes. Of course, they still make mistakes, but far fewer and with less damaging consequences.
In contrast, Leftists do the same things over and over again. It doesn’t matter how much so-called “education” they have, or how smart they think they are, or how often one tries to explain things to them. And while it’s understood that many of them are reasonably intelligent in a specific field of endeavor, they are just in the intellectual doldrums on the fundamentals of life.
These Leftists vote for a Democrat or RINO, get slapped with heavier taxes, higher inflation, more regulations, job loss and war. Then, they bemoan these things, complaining to their significant other and friends about how bad things are getting. And when the next election rolls around, what do they do? They vote for the same failed politicians with the same failed policies.
Vote Left, complain, repeat…. Leftists have no reverse gear; they just double down.
Of course, a good portion of this has to do with the delusion of baby killing. But even that is based on a lack of brain cells. After all, the Harris/Walz folks recently put out an ad with several celebrities applauding the idea of their daughters killing their grandchildren. One can’t get much further left on the bell curve of intelligence than that.
If the polling data is even partially accurate, a large number of Americans support Harris and Walz… that is, they support delusional policies of transgender stupidity, tampons in boy’s bathrooms and killing off their own offspring. They also support a nationwide property tax (the so-called “unrealized capital gains tax”), and even worse, potential nuclear holocaust. Yet, when their taxes increase and the nuclear fallout drifts over their city, they will cry out in anguish, screaming “how did this happen?”
It happened because they… a group of delusional Americans… are just mentally out of it regarding the fundamentals of life, and they don’t learn from their mistakes.
Insanity can be treated. Sadly, being intellectually dull is much harder to fix.
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