| JPL78 said: Well, we both know the answer to that. Like I said, I'm not disagreeing with you but I don't think you realize that you are making lots of blanketed generalized statement. If the actual truth lies somewhere between white and black and one needs to fully understand a situation in order to form an opinion then you can't turn around and say things like "everyone does this, everyone does that." When even you know that is not accurate. |
Of course I know I'm making a generalization. One can't possibly talk about a large group of people without doing so. It goes without saying that any observation about such a large group doesn't apply to every single member of the group, so it's a waste of time to preface every statement with, "Now I'm not saying this applies to every individual..."
Most people are pretty shockingly uninformed (or worse, misinformed) about even basic things, and any sane person is going to be ignorant if we measure ignorance as a person's knowledge vs. the vastness of the federal government's activity. It would be impossible to know more than a small fraction about what the government does without making a career of it. And since any group of people is functionally stupider than the average of its components, I don't think it's particularly arrogant or unkind to say that the body politic isn't too smart.
