no my mom was learning disabled and where she grew up girls only went to hs (or any school; after 6th grade) for social reasons and to find a husband for after hs and since her kids had an higher iq than she did she left anything other than housework up to us to figure out …
I used ot tease my mom in that fact if you put a concept past her fast enough that sounded reasonable shed go with it
For instance I was going back east by train and it was relatively easy and the travel agent I used got me a nice discount … So when I was telling her I made a remark about taking a train to Hawaii and I caught what I said afterwards but she went so far as to call the travel agent for a price inquiry
I said mom think about where Hawaii is and then think about how trains work …
she finally caught on as I choked my self from trying not to laugh
Why would you tell your mother not to spoil a movie for you?
In her bran-addled brain, that translates to "Oh, Robbie wants to see The Crying Game, that’s something we have in common, how sweet, and he’s going to be so shocked at the ending. Which I’m now thinking about…
And if I’m thinking about something, it has to come out of my mouth…"
So, if you don’t want to hear about a movie, you say “Hey, how 'bout those Mud Hens? You think Jablonski’s just on a lucky streak, or is it 'roid rage?”
My mom isn’t dumb. If she were dumb, I think I’d give her a pass on some things. Like her refusal to consider that racism exists - “I’ve never seen it” “Ma, you’re a middle class white woman from Georgia. No one has ever denied you anything based on your skin color.” Or her attitude about mental illness: “I’ve been sad before. But that didn’t stop me from cleaning the house and getting a shower!” (“Ma, sad isn’t depression.”) “Suicide is just a permanent solution to a temporary problem!” (Three kids with clinical depression. One committed suicide in 1998. The other 2 have tried at some point. But pithy phrases outweigh any attempt at empathy or understanding. Because depression equals sad.)
I have to admit that’s worse than not noticing your children need glasses until their ages are in double digits. That’s when the classrooms got large enough that every teacher we had did notice, previously it hadn’t really been a problem.
Mom still didn’t believe it was true until we left the optician’s and I stopped dead becase the tree across the street had leaves.
This is a woman who wears glasses and whose husband also did. Her mother’s injunction upon meeting my future Dad was “not the one with the glasses!” Grandma knew we’d need glasses before we were even born, and she in turn is someone who would have problems selecting Hitler in a lineup (the woman has… issues, including what’s probably some serious ADHD).
Yeah, that’s all well and good, but the problem is that these people can, and unfortunately often do, vote. And because they have no context or knowledge upon which to make an informed decision, they make a decision based upon bogus rhetoric, or how attractive the candidate’s wife is, or some kind of unworkable pledge to, say, built a 3000 km wall to stop illegal immigration.
There really should be a compentency test for participating in an election, perhaps graduated by the degree of knowledge of civics, history, and technology. Sure, it will disenfranchise some people–perhaps even otherwise intelligent people with holes in their knowledge–but that’s a feature, not a bug.
With the intent to disenfranchise specific ethnic groups, not to verify the knowledge of the electorate.
Such an idea is most likely unworkable, and would almost certanly be politically impossible to pass (and would result in massive corruption even if attempted) s I’m not seriously advoating it, but the notion at deliberately ignorant people are only affecting themselves is just not true; allowing and accepting people who are intentionally ignorant or obtuse is a detriment to society at large.
Yeah. It’s traditionally been a red state, but Pima and Maricopa counties are more liberal. But pollsters believe that the state could reject Trump and turn toward the Democratic candidate.
