Birtherism: Final Destination?

Continuing from Birtherism: Lofty Ideals?...

To interpret President Obama's remark at 5:49: 

“Three years ago, I visited Kenya as the first sitting American president to come from Kenya.”  

as denoting birth rather than lineage, is idiotic and running a fools errand. Unfortunately for the rest of us, many in the electorate and otherwise, seem to have become most adept at running those errands on a regular basis.  Is it indeed a lofty ideal we are moving towards?

Indeed, this counterproductive and divisive propaganda or yellow journalism is indicative of the depths to which our media pandering and electorates predilections have plunged.

In Birtherism: Lofty Ideals? we quoted another web site but would not grace said yellow journalism with a link. Why? That brand of yellow journalism is not even worthy in printed form, of the paper or ink, much less to function as a cat box liner. 

In fact, after lining my cat's box with said "journalism", he refused to relieve himself in the box for three days, saying it would be totally redundant.

This proves my Felis is smarter than the majority of the US electorate.  Sadly, said assertion is not hard to prove.

Topics at hand, birtherism, fake news, the US electorate, idiots, plunging to new depths, and fool's errands or activities having no chance of success.  And now this...



We are somehow reminded of this prescient quote...

All of us, if we are of reflective habit, like and admire men whose fundamental beliefs differ radically from our own.  

But when a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. 

So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or count himself lost. … All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.

The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. 

We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. - Henry Louis Mencken - Baltimore Sun (26 July 1920)

It would seem that not only does the Presidency reflect the inner soul of 49% of the electorate, but we reached that lofty ideal or final destination, long ago.