I'm confronted with a conundrum. Is a person who is too lazy to think about solutions to serious problems affecting his or her life, in other words too lazy to use their brain, and who consequently does stupid things, merely an intelligent person who does stupid things, or truly a stupid person? I ask myself the question for three reasons.

First: because wealthy, "privileged" classes of all past cultures and all eras have openly claimed the ignorant masses of "commoners" to be stupid; a belief seemingly accepted by members of this nation's contemporary privileged classes.

Second: because the American masses, whether ignorant or educated (whatever the definition of "educated" is in the contemporary U.S. A.) are fast approaching the 300 million mark (about 131 million in the past 50 years), unthinkingly breed like rabbits, and robustly do their share to contribute to the overpopulation of planet Earth. This despite the truth that there aren't enough fair-paying jobs in the U.S. now for all working class citizens, and the good jobs of the future are being sent overseas by those privileged Americans wealthy enough to own part of large, labor intensive corporations. Compound this situation with the illogical and stupid stance of many so-called "Christians" in the truly unchristian-like decisions to deny a woman the right to have a traditional abortion, or the right to take an available "morning after pill" and we have a situation in which seemingly intelligent people commit stupid actions. So, are these Americans merely intelligent people who do stupid things, or truly stupid people?

The third reason I ask the question is because working Americans have long been accustomed to the corrupt nature of their political system and its bias toward the privileged class, yet rarely have they attempted to change this system, at least not since the early years of the last century. It seems American commoners have been programmed to accept the divine nature of our Constitution, without understanding that it is this document that has deprived them of the right to participate in political decision-making, and is a document strongly biased toward the wealthy class.

This situation is compounded today because the American political system has allowed a group of right wing, fascists to grab total control of the federal government and dismantle its system of checks and balances. This group is totally committed to wealthy owners of corporations and the needs of business as opposed to the needs of the citizenry and the nation, it has placed the nation into an illogical war causing the unnecessary death and mutilation of thousands of American boys and girls, and it has looted the federal treasury and bankrupted the federal government. Yet nowhere is there a cry to change the nation's political system and remove the power of decision-making from corrupt politicians and greedy privileged class.

So, I now ask you, are the working Americans who vote for Republican candidates, the acknowledged representatives of wealth, or who make no effort to change their corrupt and dangerous political system merely intelligent people who behave stupidly, or are they truly stupid people?

You tell me!