Gullibility

How many Americans have read Gulliver's Travels? Oprah might do well to commission a surefire bestseller entitled Gulliber's Travels, an expose of America's collective and deep-rooted gullibility. How else do you explain this ongoing blind faith in our commander in chief and his plainly skulduggerous White House operatives, like Cheney and Rove, or Gerson the speechwriter who confesses to being a blind faith kind of guy who believes the Lord makes him do it. Now on a daily basis, it is revealed how the W.H. manipulated intelligence data to suit their own agendass without any regard for truth or consequences. When will Americans wake up and learn to question, seriously? (Didn't they do that for what in retrospect seems like about thirty minutes back in the '60s?) You would think in a democracy that would be the first order of the day. But no, not here, it seems to be the first odor of the day. How embarassing, really, that we seem to be a populace of simpletons who don't seem to want to think for ourselves but instead simply follow, follow, follow. The irony is, of course, that for most people their domestic ill health just gets worse, from the national debt to health care to retirement, while the oligarchy just grows more powerful and wealthy, and in some cases come to believe in their own lies. It's an old story, but nobody seems to have read it. Least of all the Yahoos.