Before you go looking for your shotgun (or, more likely, AK-47). let me explain the title of the diary.
I have just finished a two-hour tour of the internet, including the Kos, and stopped counting the number of times someone was called an idiot at eighty. I myself have been called an idiot for advocating universal Medicare - a single payer health plan- as well as wondering why "you didn't build that" is so bad when Obama says it and so good when the Bible Belters invoke the help of God to cross the street by themselves.
As a matter of fact, almost everyone in this great, open-minded land of ours turns out to be an idiot, according to one view or another. People are idiots for wanting gun owners to register, corporations to let stockholders know where their money is being spent and workers to make more than the minimum wage.
We're all idiots.
It must be noted that the right-wingers can find a lot more idiots than can the left. This is undoubtedly because the right has better role models. If you can find a ruder talk-show host than Uncle Rush, please speak up. Even the rudest lefty pales in comparison to the spewers of venom hatched by the right. No wonder the people who spend most of their semi-thinking hours listening to Rush and Friends start writing like him, with the general difference that Rush is able to spell at a fifth-grade level.
Idiots can be found on any issue, like the idiots who believe we're poisoning the environment, the idiots who think Darwin really had something and, of course, the idiots who believe in silly notions like magnetism and gravity. We are truly a nation of idiots.
The bright side of all this, however, is the group who have things right on every issue. You can catch many of them on Fox "News." The President of the United States is a Muslim, his wife is a closet Lesbian and his dog is a disguised terrorist named Ahmed. You've heard all this. It's clearly the work of the liberal media, owned by liberal giants like Rupert Murdoch, RCA, Microsoft, Viacom and Disney. You know, those liberals.
Harry Reid is an idiot for saying that Mitt Romney hasn't paid taxes for ten years. Well, maybe. John Sununu is an idiot for saying that Mr. Obama doesn't understand how America works. I'll bet Mr. Sununu does. Richard Nixon taught him. Some think that anyone who becomes famous for doing absolutely nothing except looking pretty is an idiot. Others think that people who pay attention to these people are idiots. Some even say Kim Kardashian is an idiot.
The point of all this is that we're great at calling people names, but not nearly so good at coming up with workable solutions for the problems we either gripe about or try to brush away. For instance, where is anybody's solution for the largest tax inequity in the history of our country? G.E., the "liberal owner" of NBC, paid no taxes on 5 billion dollars in income.
Now, putting up with that is idiotic.