We’ve all seen dumb and stupider on social interwebs. But, there has gots to be something seriously wrong with some of these folks, though, so let’s have a look at the dumb, stupid, and the holy crap in my socks batman what just happened from earlier in the day on Tweeter.

Here’s a series of posts by someone claiming to be a reporter working for Alex Jones’ Infowars. Who knew there could be such a thing? A reporter? I guess she reports the shit that falls out of her ass because… okay, judge for yourself.

Dumb:

Dear Libtards who think Facebook is a privately owned business,

There’s a thing called fact-checking.

Facebook is a public business that’s publicly traded.

Using that argument to justify banning Alex Jones doesn’t work pic.twitter.com/6laQBgn0qF

— Millie Weaver (@Millie__Weaver) August 7, 2018

Stupider:

To say Facebook is a “privately owned business” is factually incorrect.

Facebook is a public business. I did not say government entity.

-A public business has to be a corporation
-Private companies can be partnerships or sole proprietorships
-Corporations have more regulations https://t.co/FQR2Pe3neB

— Millie Weaver (@Millie__Weaver) August 7, 2018

SMDH:

Apparently, “Progressives” can’t read.

I simply pointed out that the cliche’ argument that ‘Facebook can censor Alex Jones because they’re a privately owned business’ doesn’t work.

Why? Because it’s a factually incorrect.

Facebook is a public business.

— Millie Weaver (@Millie__Weaver) August 7, 2018

Well, libtards, I guess we all been told. Publicly held businesses can’t ban individuals based on offensive behavior that violates their standards because they have fewer rules than corporations? Oooh! Me head hurts!

The Founding Father’s were right. To maintain a democracy you need a well educated electorate who understands the Constitution, the functions of the government, and which government organs are responsible for fulfilling which responsibilities. We no longer have that. It seems that at least a third of the population doesn’t even understand the basics of how our democracy works.

How We Deal With Complexity

Our world is far more complex and convoluted than that of the late 18th Century. It takes a considerable effort to understand taxes, health care, diplomacy, and economics. If you’re not willing to put in the time and effort to understand the basics of each, you can’t make an informed choice at the ballot box. That’s why we have people that believe trickle down economics works, crime is getting worse, our national debt works like personal debt (it don’t; really, it don’t), and the richest country in the history of human kind can’t afford anything it damn well pleases to afford.

David Souter, who is not a Founding Father, but a retired Supreme Court justice, helpfully explained the following:

A Republic, If You Can Keep It

Democracy cannot be sustained by the ignorant and uneducated, especially by a population that does not have a strong grasp of civics and how their government works. A people who are too ignorant of their government that they don’t know who is responsible for the various functions of government, then we won’t vote to solve our problems. If we vote, we will vote for emotional reasons.  And, if we can’t even conceive of the problems much less the solutions, we are far too willing to hand the reins of government over to the false prophet who proclaims that I alone can fix it.

I guess things have got to get worse before they can get better, but how much worse and how much more of this level of just utter stupidity can the republic survive?