# DNC is for smart people only. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 28, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203 "2004-07-28T01:47:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![New\_Iskander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/db5fbb/32.png) [@New\_Iskander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Iskander)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/1 "2004-07-28T01:47:59Z")
Democrats are holding the show in Boston this week, and they want all Americans to come join them. All except the stupid, that is. I am one of “the stupid”. Many Democrats told me once and again that I am stupid. So they don’t want me. They say that I am stupid because I don’t agree with them. And I don’t agree with them because I am stupid. They say that I am stupid because I think different. And I think different because I am stupid. They say that I am stupid because I am not a Democrat. And I am not a Democrat because I am stupid. So because I am stupid, Democrats don’t want me to join them. And I am not alone. I saw many other “stupid” people rejected and ridiculed by Democrats. It happens even on this Board. Democrats want people to get “smart” before they accept them. The only way for us “stupid” to get “smart” is to join Democrats. And the only way for us “stupid” to join Democrats is to get “smart”. But I have a “stupid” thought again: isn’t that the (please help me with a long word, all together now) To-ta-li-ta-ri-an way? * * * _Don’t be “stupid”, be a “smartie” Come and join the Nazi party?_ ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/2 "2004-07-28T02:10:27Z")
Personally, I think writing an OP with one-line paragraphs is stupid. Makes it look like a rant-sonnet or something. \*Shall they compare me to a summer’s day? No, they call me stupid and intemperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. But my eternal dumbness shall not fade.\* ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/3 "2004-07-28T02:14:33Z")
I don’t know about totalitarian, but you’ve certainly gone a long way to proving to me that you’re I-N-C-O-H-E-R-E-N-T. Do you have anything to back up your veiled comparison of the Democrats to the Nazis, or were you just planning on leaving it flapping around unsubstantiated? And a “they want me to think like them!” doesn’t really count, since as far as I can tell, most people prefer to join political parties with which they find themselves ideologically aligned. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/4 "2004-07-28T02:17:35Z")
Feeling a lttle disadvantaged, are you? It’s ok. Someday you, too, can have a brain. And your travelling companion a heart. ---
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/5 "2004-07-28T02:20:37Z")
> [@New Iskander](#): > > Democrats are holding the show in Boston this week, and they want all Americans to come join them. All except the stupid, that is. > > I am one of “the stupid”. > > Many Democrats told me once and again that I am stupid. So they don’t want me. > > They say that I am stupid because I don’t agree with them. And I don’t agree with them because I am stupid. > > They say that I am stupid because I think different. And I think different because I am stupid. (snipping out stupid stuff) Ever consider that maybe it’s not the Democrats? Maybe you’re like…you know…just stupid? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/6 "2004-07-28T02:25:03Z")
I’m sorry you’re stupid. Stupid. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/7 "2004-07-28T02:25:29Z")
Ah, yes. From Bill Clinton’s famous “Please Don’t Vote For Me, All You Stupid People” speech. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/8 "2004-07-28T02:26:43Z")
**lambchops** , my darling dumpling! Thanks for today’s out-loud guffaw. I just _knew_ opening this thread (given the title and OP) would be highly entertaining. But in the very first reply? Kudos, my merry munchkin! **Iskander the New** felt rejected; Those smarty Dems left him dejected. He ran to the Pit To rant. But the wit Of those _liberals!_ swiftly dissected The poor, hapless tool of the Right. Too bad, but it’s scarcely a fight That one can call fair, For **New Iskander’s** bare- ly coherent on good days. Good night! ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/9 "2004-07-28T02:37:17Z")
This post is possibly the most stupid partisan political I have ever read on this board. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/10 "2004-07-28T02:45:39Z")
> [@chique](#): > > Someday you, too, can have a brain. > > And your travelling companion a heart. Now I’ve got a picture of Cheney rubbing his hands together and saying “And your little fucking dog too” ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/11 "2004-07-28T02:55:21Z")
> [@fluiddruid](#): > > Ah, yes. From Bill Clinton’s famous “Please Don’t Vote For Me, All You Stupid People” speech. > > :rolleyes: But…if they were really stupid, then they voted for him anyway! Get it? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/12 "2004-07-28T02:59:25Z")
> [@New Iskander](#): > > Democrats are holding the show in Boston this week, and they want all Americans to come join them. All except the stupid, that is. > > I am one of “the stupid”. > > Many Democrats told me once and again that I am stupid. So they don’t want me. > > They say that I am stupid because I don’t agree with them. And I don’t agree with them because I am stupid. > > They say that I am stupid because I think different. And I think different because I am stupid. > > They say that I am stupid because I am not a Democrat. And I am not a Democrat because I am stupid. > > So because I am stupid, Democrats don’t want me to join them. > > And I am not alone. I saw many other “stupid” people rejected and ridiculed by Democrats. It happens even on this Board. > > Democrats want people to get “smart” before they accept them. > > The only way for us “stupid” to get “smart” is to join Democrats. And the only way for us “stupid” to join Democrats is to get “smart”. > > But I have a “stupid” thought again: isn’t that the (please help me with a long word, all together now) To-ta-li-ta-ri-an way? > > * * * > > _Don’t be “stupid”, be a “smartie” > Come and join the Nazi party?_ Hey, that’s quite the giant effigy you’ve constructed. Too bad it’s made entirely of straw. ---
**Author:** ![WernhamHogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@WernhamHogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WernhamHogg)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/13 "2004-07-28T03:20:19Z")
As Robert Heinlein said, the problem with stupid people is they don’t really believe there’s a such thing as being smart. They think that people just make it up to make them feel stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/14 "2004-07-28T03:26:45Z")
Stupid is as stupid does. Posting an OP such as this one, well… ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/15 "2004-07-28T03:30:27Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > This post is possibly the most stupid partisan political I have ever read on this board. So now you’re _admitting_ that you don’t proofread your own work? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/16 "2004-07-28T03:51:13Z")
“There are those who”, **New\_Isk** , you forgot “There are those who”. Oh, wait, that’s the other party. How stupid of me. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/17 "2004-07-28T04:07:22Z")
> [@New Iskander](#): > > Democrats are holding the show in Boston this week, and they want all Americans to come join them. All except the stupid, that is. > > I am one of “the stupid”. > > Many Democrats told me once and again that I am stupid. So they don’t want me. > > They say that I am stupid because I don’t agree with them. And I don’t agree with them because I am stupid. > > They say that I am stupid because I think different. And I think different because I am stupid. > > They say that I am stupid because I am not a Democrat. And I am not a Democrat because I am stupid. > > So because I am stupid, Democrats don’t want me to join them. > > And I am not alone. I saw many other “stupid” people rejected and ridiculed by Democrats. It happens even on this Board. > > Democrats want people to get “smart” before they accept them. > > The only way for us “stupid” to get “smart” is to join Democrats. And the only way for us “stupid” to join Democrats is to get “smart”. > > But I have a “stupid” thought again: isn’t that the (please help me with a long word, all together now) To-ta-li-ta-ri-an way? > > * * * > > _Don’t be “stupid”, be a “smartie” > Come and join the Nazi party?_ This seems to me to be one of the biggest, and perhaps most fundimental, differences between the right and left wing. I heard an interview on _Fresh Air_ recently where Terry was interviewing someone “right-wing” ( I forget exactly who or why) and they began to quible over what it “elitism” meant. To Terry (a pretty safe assumption of her being left-wing) Elitism meant more money and power to Terry, but this did not make much sense to the man who defined (or meant to, the guy did a terrible job from what I heard of the program) elitism as more thinking yourself as better/smarter than others. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/18 "2004-07-28T04:27:11Z")
> [@](#): > > **New Iskander** : Many Democrats told me once and again that I am stupid. So they don’t want me. > > They say that I am stupid because I don’t agree with them. And I don’t agree with them because I am stupid. Poor baby. Many Democrats may have told you that you are stupid. And you yourself have agreed with them: "I am one of “the stupid”. ) Since you have agreed with them, all former membership requirements have been waived. You are now free to vote as a member of the Democratic Party if you so choose. We have removed the security censors assigned to you previously. ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/19 "2004-07-28T04:32:38Z")
You’re not stupid, **New Iskander**. Where did you get that idea? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203/20 "2004-07-28T04:33:03Z")
Well, **Isk** its just like my ol’ Pappy used to say: Don’t worry about what people are thinking about you, 'cause they aren’t. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnc-is-for-smart-people-only/257203.md?page=2)