Why do people still believe the Bush administration's rhetoric?

Question

Is it because there are actually that many people who believe everything they hear/see on FOX News?

Are they too afraid to admit that they elected a "C" student to run their country?

Do that many people think that "God" actually told Bush to go to war?

Last time I checked, I wasn't a part of the federal government, and it wasn't my job to have a plan to pull the troops out of the middle east.

"Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism." - Thomas Jefferson (He's a founding father, I'm sure you didn't know that)

Answer 1

people are stupid.

Answer 2

Dissent is good.

But the rather ignorant rants of calling him and other gop'ers HITLER is not 'Dissent, but downright insulting.

In fact the last time somebody called me a 'stormtrooper' I put the guy in the hospital, permament limp.

I think people (leftwing demos) who have called those disagreeing whith them "HITLER' need to be put in the insane assylum.

Btw, Bush's grades were not "C" on the MBA, and overall had better grades than Kerry or GORE overall.

Get your facts straight, the grade report of his has been available for years.

Answer 3

I think its social apathy and government encouraged dumbing down of America,dumb people are easier to manipulate.

Some thirty million adults in the U.S. do not have the skills to perform even the most basic tasks such as adding numbers on a bank slip, identifying a place on a map, or reading directions for taking a medication. Eleven million Americans are totally illiterate in English.
Only twenty-nine percent of Americans have basic reading and computing skills. One out of every twenty Americans lacks the ability to understand what is going on in the world or to develop an informed opinion for voting.

http://www.hermes-press.com/education_in...

Americans are far from alone in the world, but from the perspective of many young Americans, we might as well be. Most young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 demonstrate a limited understanding of the world, and they place insufficient importance on the basic geographic skills that might enhance their knowledge.

Young Americans answer about half (54 percent) of all the survey questions correctly. But by and large, majorities of young adults fail at a range of questions testing their basic geographic literacy.

Only 37% of young Americans can find Iraq on a map—though U.S. troops have been there since 2003.
6 in 10 young Americans don't speak a foreign language fluently.
20% of young Americans think Sudan is in Asia. (It's the largest country in Africa.)
48% of young Americans believe the majority population in India is Muslim. (It's Hindu—by a landslide.)
Half of young Americans can't find New York on a map.
These results suggest that young people in the United States—the most recent graduates of our educational system—are unprepared for an increasingly global future. Far too many lack even the most basic skills for navigating the international economy or understanding the relationships among people and places that provide critical context for world events.

About the Survey

The findings presented are the results of a face-to-face survey conducted from December 17, 2005, to January 20, 2006, by Roper Public Affairs and Media, a part of GfK NOP. This study is the latest in a series of surveys commissioned by the National Geographic Society.

Many in power believe that deception of the American public is a legitimate way for them to achieve their plan. Bush's so-called "war on terror" is the cloak for a personal agenda ,but this form of manipulation has always been popular with governments because it works so well

Answer 4

Why do people think that if they keep on whining and complaining about the same crap, It makes them better than those they ***** about? Got a plan?? A solution?? Or, are you just going to continue telling everyone else that they are retarded? Yeah, that really helps. And, by the way genius, Bush never said that "God told me to go to war". I think YOU are the one believing all the BS you hear... obviously.

Answer 5

Many people are too weak to change, or too stubborn to admit they made a mistake. Like the thirty percent who still approve of The Chimp's performance.

Answer 6

FOOLS are afraid to admit to the mistake of following an idiot. Therfore, CONS stick to their idiocy, and to their diot leader.

Be patient. The tide is turning against idiocy, i.e., BUSH.

Answer 7

99.99999% of americans do not belive anything that George W Bush says

Answer 8

what makes anyone believe in rhetoric period even yours is highly biased do you remember what Einstein said about freedom of speech and human bias ..nothing is perfect if u ask me most every politician and pundit alike fails way short yet we persevere

Answer 9

the alternative is listening to the libs rhetoric

Answer 10

Because it's still better than the bullshiit rhetoric the liberals spew.
Why is it liberals repeat the same questions over and over and over and over again?

Answer 11

people are not stupid, they are gullible. you tell them what they want to hear, promise them what they want to hear and they will follow you anywhere, without question. especially if they are afraid, fearful of an unknown enemy, real or imagined