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A lot of ranters and bloggers write about current events and the mistakes stupid people make; be they celebrities or random imbeciles that the author has ran into throughout the years. However, this might mislead some to believe that people are becoming stupid at a faster rate than they really are. To take some of the burden off the present, I'd like to take a stab or ten at some of the greatest unsung examples of human stupidity that history has to offer.
And for what I like to call "Exhibit A" in the long case in favor of eugenics, one needs look no further than their voting ballots.
I don't know who is responsible for this mess, and I probably shouldn't be trusted with that information lest I slaughter their descendants. At some point in history, some asshat thought it would be a great idea to print each candidate's political party affiliation on the American voting ballots. Because everyone knows that the public makes more informed decisions when their choices are compartmentalized into ill-defined power-hungry social cliques.
It was solely because of this decision that Americans are able to have power in ignorance. Don't want to spend minutes researching who would be a better choice for the leadership of our country? Phone it in with a party line vote! Don't know who belongs to which party? That's okay, we printed them on the ballots for your convenience. Am I the only person who sees the gigantic fucking flaw in this picture? It's enabling ignorance. It's giving WAY TOO MUCH power to the major political parties. There's a reason only untrustworthy rich white people ever seem to get elected.
America should really do away with printing the political parties on the voting ballots. Make people at least research who belongs to which party if they want to whore their vote away to their political party. Who knows? They might end up learning what their party's candidate stands for.
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