Letter to the editor: Just dumb enough to believe government

OPINION:

Charles Darwin believed man evolved from apes, but I now believe that man evolved from jellyfish. Scientists tell us that jellyfish have survived for 650 million years without a brain. Could this be the way in which many humans survive today?

As I watch the election results being reported, I’m convinced the world is filled with people who no longer use common sense, but instead somehow “think” without brains.

To anyone who studied the Holocaust and wondered how Hitler killed 6 million Jews while the world sat with their head in the sand, are we watching the world take the same path today?

The late comedian George Carlin nailed it when he said: “Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinking. They want obedient workers. People just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.”

We had a president (Barack Obama) who, while on the campaign trail, said he had visited 57 states. Yet we elected him. His vice president once said: “When the stock market crashed Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. he said, ’Look, here’s what happened.’”

What “Uncle Joe” neglected to tell us was there were no TVs in 1929 and Herbert Hoover was president when the market crashed.

Yes, Dorothy, people without brains, hearts and without courage still exist — but they’re no longer found in Oz. The yellow brick road now leads to the voting booth and Washington, where the first stop is the nonplussed, effete Supreme Court.

ED HUBER

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Copperhill, Tennessee