It’s the Stupid, Stupid!

I. Tell Peo­ple They Are Stupid

In a move sure to calm anx­i­eties about the lat­est ver­sion of Obama-​​Care the admin­is­tra­tion has decided to adopt a bold new strat­egy:  call the Amer­i­can peo­ple stu­pid and then prove to them that Obama’s peo­ple are stu­pid too.

I don’t know hope hope­ful this is; it feels more like des­per­a­tion. It is, how­ever, def­i­nitely dif­fer­ent. One might even call it novel.

The first thing they do, just to get us inter­ested and to give some idea of how weird it is going to get, is to have an obvi­ous plant start bab­bling about the intro­duc­tion of the micro­com­puter. He blath­ers on about how peo­ple were scared of them until they had DOS for Dum­mies to quiet their fear of these new­fan­gled crea­tures. Then he says that’s what these Tea Party peo­ple need: Obama Care for Dum­mies. Once they have been plucked from the swamp of igno­rance they won’t be so afraid of it.

II. Give an Exam­ple of What Stu­pid Looks Like

This was the first instance of a per­son prov­ing he is stu­pid. Since DOS for Dum­mies came out in 1991 and Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the founders of Microsoft and DOS, were already pretty well fixed by that time I guess some­body was able to gather his courage and pur­chase a PC prior to the book’s pub­li­ca­tion. The speaker (aka the obvi­ous plant) also proved he wasn’t so hot at read­ing (or spelling, either) because he kept say­ing eck cetera. Since the word is pro­nounced exactly like it’s spelled, and it’s spelled et cetera, he kind of blew the whis­tle on him­self with that one.

III. Demon­strate That You’re Stu­pid, Too

Then one of the President’s chief advi­sors, Valerie Jar­rett, jumped on the stu­pid band­wagon by talk­ing about what a hard word clo­ture was and won­der­ing who could be expected to know a word like that.

This is a major com­po­nent of the strat­egy. Call it the kum­baya com­po­nent. Since both you and we are stu­pid we’re kind of all in this together. So let’s all hold hands, sing a song, stop mak­ing signs, and quit scar­ing legislators.

IV. The Hard Part

This is where they sep­a­rate the men from the boys. You’ve told the peo­ple they were stu­pid. You’ve shown them you were stu­pid, too, and you should all hold hands, sing songs, and use your new­found sol­i­dar­ity to sup­port the peo­ple who are per­fectly will­ing to solve all your prob­lems if only you will let them. And then — Shaazam! Present your­selves as Really Smart Peo­ple who should not be ques­tioned by the stu­pid who have been proven to be stu­pid by virtue of the fact that they were called stu­pid by the very peo­ple who are now revealed to be really, really smart.

Well, don’t blame me. I said it was the hard part.

See if you enjoy this lat­est offer­ing from the folks at Obama-​​Care cour­tesy of Hot Air. I’m guess­ing YES.

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Tags: Obama-Care, Stupid Strategy, Tea Party, Valerie Jarrett