Just How Stupid Are We?

[Philly Mike]

I would like to know how Political smarts converts to intelligence. So what if people don't know who Dick Chainey is, or Condi Rice. How is knowing that the members of the electoral college are the actual people who vote for president going to really help you get by in life. Just because you have some political savy doesn't mean everyone that lacks this knowledge is stupid.
There are people who would think someone is stupid because a person doesn't know that milk is an acid, or that in chess there is a move called en pesant, or would say someone is dumb because they don't know what a terrabyte is. I can go on about this. Politics is just one miniscule thing out of everything we can learn. Unless someone can explain every single thing that exists I don't think anyone should be saying someone is stupid.

Yes speaches in the past used to be written differently, but that was at a different time when it was easier to stay in one place and listen to one person speak for a couple of hours. Now people can't do that. The general person feels they have a lot of other things to take care of in todays world, this leads to the "sound clip" politics that so many have used as of late.
Another thing is by giving speaches at a lower grade level of understanding it will bring out people to vote for that person as oppose to being intimidated by more complicated words and sentinces.

Regardless of any of this, intelligence is a vague thing. You may understand all of the inner workings of politics but I am sure that there will be a time in which someone will have to teach you something. So because you don't understand it without being shown about it does that make you dumber than them?