Questionable Intelligence of Some U.S. Adults

In the 2011 elections, many people, concerned about the financial and employment problem, voted back into control of government the very same political party and culture that were responsible for the mess they were voting against. Dissatisfied with their housing, financial, and employment problems—not to mention two wars that killed several hundred thousand people and bankrupting the United States—voted out Democratic politicians and returned a slew of Republicans to office. They had expected the Democrats, within two years of taking power, to reverse the enormous harm caused by the preceding Republican administration.

This writer is an independent, has no strong bias one way or the order, and strongly disagrees with some Democratic actions—as well as Republicans, but recognizes that under a constitution there must be give and take, and decisions of the majority have to be recognized if we are to believe in constitutional requirements.  But—the facts strongly suggest that ignorance of the mostly unread public played a major role in many voters voting for the return of Republicans. Disregarding political ideology, the facts showed questionable intelligence in this change based upon the following facts about the ultra serious problems and threats::

Sampling of the conduct and consequences of the Republican Administration under President George H. Bush (Jr.):

• Republicans, aided by some Democrats, eliminated financial safeguards that made possible the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930.
   
• The many frauds associated with the housing crisis occurred during the Republican control.
   
• The many frauds associated with the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression.
   
• Aiding and abetting of these frauds by regulators in every responsible government office.
   
• Serious misconduct that made possible the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack that killed 3,000 people. (See www.defraudingamerica.com/911_index.html.)
   
• Engaging in serial lying that plunged the United States into a war with Iraq that:
   
  • Killed and maimed over 100,000 Americans.
     
  • Killed and maimed several hundred thousands Iraqis, making the supporting American people complicit in their murders.
     
  • Killed and maimed tens of thousands of Afghans and started the longest war in history against the Taliban-led nation of Afghanistan, solely on the basis that some al Qaeda personnel were located in the remove and mostly ungovernable mountainous areas--despite the fact that:
     
    • The Taliban government offered to turn the al Qaeda personnel mover to a third nation for investigation and trial--as was done with the alleged Lockerbie bombers.
       
    • The fact that the actual 9/11 hijackers had resided for long periods prior to 9/11 in various European countries, and also, in the case of the pilots, resided in the United States and received pilot training under FBI reports were suspicious.
       
• The primary enablers making for easy hijackings of four airliners resided in the United States and their corrupt actions made made known in numerous federal court filings under the federal crime reporting statute; in letters to key government officials, and in books written by former federal agent Rodney Stich and his coalition of former intelligence and law enforcement personnel.
   
• Them invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan generated the world's greatest number of people wanting to kill Americans, a condition that will continue for generations.
   
• Despite the greatest harm ever inflicted upon the nation and its people by the prior Republican administration and its culture, many people:
   
  • Voted to bring back the same culture and the same Republicans.
     
  • Voted for people lacking in experience, competency and common sense, and even considering them for president, showing that those voters had no possible comprehension of the complexity of the problems facing the United States; the possible catastrophic consequences that such incompetency can bring about, that the question of having a intelligence test for voters would not be beyond common sense.

Ironically, most of those voting for Republicans, and voting to replace Democrats, were the same people that supported the wars that they knew would kill many innocent people, and make themselves complicit in the murders. A few examples of the consequences of their support:

• War pictures from Afghanistan and Iraq.
   
• Video of U.S. military personnel proudly announcing the murders of people that had never done any harm to the United States, or who were merely defending their country against the invasion based on serial lying, or of children.

The same Republicans that brought about the housing and financial frauds that imploded in 2008, who lying embroiled the United States into two wars killing thousands of people, are still being supported by large segments of the American public.