stupid is the new dumb

Dumb has always been around. I am sure there is a dumb gene and for some it is dominate rather then recessive. Dumb however has morphed into stupid at a rate that if social scientists actually performed a study we would find has evolved faster then the speed of light. Dumb at times can be overlooked. When a dumb person is standing in the middle of the sidewalk talking loudly on his or her phone oblivious to their actions, one can walk around them. And of course anything Sarah Palin pontificates about or is handed to read by her ghost writers is DUMB. We all have experienced dumb people and if we are not as dumb as they have managed with a frustrating sigh to walk away to ignore them. In the year 2014, it seems in particular in the world of  those who identify as Christian Conservative politicians or pundents dumb has evolved into STUPID.

Climate change is just a fantasy akin to a religious myth, if Charles Krauthammer is to be believed. "It's the oldest superstition around," he said. "It was in the Old Testament, it's in the rain dance of Native Americans: if you sin, the skies will not cooperate.” "I rise today in opposition to this bill, because I believe ultimately this museum that will be built on the National Mall, on federal land, will enshrine the radical feminist movement that stands against the pro-life movement, the pro-family movement, and pro-traditional marriage movement," Bachmann said on the House floor Wednesday ahead of a vote on the bill.

A Republican running for Congress equated the Affordable Care Act's mandate that employers cover contraceptives as a preventive benefit with forcing people to serve hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis. Monte Shaw, the executive director of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, is considered a frontrunner in the Republican primary.  His push to drug-test poor people with children has already been rejected by federal courts, but Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) isn't taking "No, that's not Constitutional" for an answer. The News Service of Florida reports that the Scott administration filed to an appeals court in Atlanta, asking it overturn a lower court's ruling demanding the urine of applicants to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families fund (TANF) constitutes unreasonable search.

Dumb had always been manageable. Dumb was not very contagious and smart usually was the antidote to counteract any negative ramifications to dumb. But like most virus’s, in order to survive it mutates always at the ready to become something else, add a feature to elude any chance of being found out and eliminated. FOX News and their crew of hate ridden entertainers, Talk Radio and its venomous loud mouthed no brain shock jocks, Anarchists confused with history and the true meaning of the Constitution and religious Christian Jihadists reading not from the Bible but an abridged version of propaganda espoused upon by demigods have buoyed dumb into STUPID. So many cases of STUPID abound that perhaps the National Institute of Health should declare our nation in the throws of pandemic.