Hoisted on their own petard
Category: Society & Culture...
Posted Friday, January 21, 2005 at 08:22 AM [GMT-6]

Dan Lovejoy dissects the flawed logic behind this bumper sticker:

Fearful People Do Stupid Things

Dan identifies this bumper sticker as an intended slam by liberals on, presumably, anyone who was stupid enough to vote for W and the fake war on terrorism:

So, anyhow - “Fearful people do stupid things” is an insult, but uppity, clever, and generic enough for an Oklahoma liberal to use it as her personal protest. No doubt the NPR crowd approves. That precious liberal meme, “sheeple are stupid” is confirmed in one neat self-adhesive package. After all, President Bush’s trump card was the war on terror. And the Ah-muhrican sheeple are just peeing their pants about terrorism, right?

I agree completely with Dan's analysis, but it did occur to me that there might be a different explanation for the bumper sticker.

Rather than an insult toward conservatives, might it not be a confession by liberals?

"Dan and Angi have something to say" is a blog I've recently discovered and one which I find myself going back to on an increasingly frequent basis. Dan Lovejoy and wife Angi are based in the great state of Oklahoma, and they hold forth on a wide variety of topics, both secular and faith-related. Check 'em out; I think you'll approve.

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Thanks! We're flattered.

Posted by: Dan at January 21, 2005 09:45 AM

"Rather than an insult toward conservatives, might it not be a confession by liberals?"

Oh, that's good. Touché, Eric! (Watch out for them fireants, kids. They got a nasty sting.)

Maybe someone should print up a run of "...like voting for Kerry." stickers

Fearful people do stupid things....like voting for Kerry.

It would be a nice add-on. (Yeah, yeah, I know. It's not nice to put stickers on other people's cars. Somebody should remind the people who have taken to putting "Kerry-Edwards '04" stickers on the windshields of pro- Bush vehicles.)

That silly slogan of theirs is a very good reflection of the Left's thinking and part of why they lost the election. Not everyone is trying to re-live the protest years of the Vietnam war. Many voters are more concerned with domestic issues and didn't like Kerry's stance on most of them.

Posted by: Mr. Freen at January 21, 2005 06:01 PM
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