Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for January 03, 2015

Depends on whom the “dumbing-down” is being addressed to. Just look at the senator…he sort of fits the role…nah, he really does fit the bill! ;)

If you have to come on to a comics website and spew that stuff, maybe you’ve lost some perspective. Just sayin.

And that’s how the politicians like it.

Couldn’t agree more. Well said…

How can you vote for ‘the best man(or lady) if from that persons point of view there isn’t anyone worth the time and effort. THEY ARE ALL THE SAME—FULL OF B*** S*** ! ! ! !

How ’bout following the law?

So true.

I thought this would turn into a blood bath of comments; especially after the first one coming out of the chute. Must be the New Year’s resolution to be more kind to one another.

And do not forget Bushy Boy!!!!

Now, now. That’s unfair to other fat, old, white guys. To be a successful Republican presidential candidate, you have to meet other qualifications. Like whiskey-addled halfwit, robot-like agency tool, early Alzheimer’s sufferer, or amoral criminal. I can’t include the head-injured jock. He lost to a peanut farmer.

Sigh. Belfry’s right, and this thread is proof. Cattle.

tell me that when there is somebody worth voting for.

the character actually seems to have been based on Teddy Kennedy, a Democrat

it is sad that i live in a land full of echoes – with no original voice – filled with politicians who have bought off the people/media of their choice. most people can’t/won’t think for themselves so echoes they give for replies. echoes of silly solutions based on biases taught to them young. so they argue and wrangle and name call for solutions they really don’t want. and their leaders all laugh and deride them for they are too dumb to understand what they ought. – don’t believe me, just sit in on one of the ‘good ol’ boy bull sessions where no recording of any kind is allowed. solutions aren’t discussed, only discussions on how can we keep what we got and continue to take what we don’t have.

Oh, and lest we forget; this is just a comic so nothing said or written here should be taken seriously…

Proof the Senator is a Tea Party Republican

As an old, fat, white liberal I resent that comment! I wouldn’t vote Rethuglican if you held a gun to my head.

I didn’t think anyone could be that dumb…but alas…..

Not so much the dumbing-down of individuals, but the dumbing-down of the media used for discourse. Lincoln and Douglas debated for hours in front of people who were provably not as smart as the average modern voter (seriously: there is research showing a steady increase in IQ as nutrition, public education, and medicine improved in the last 150 years) but still paid attention. These days the standard political “message” is maybe thirty seconds in length. We have chosen—or perhaps it is more correct to say the corporate media have chosen for us—to consume our political information in these tiny units. Doesn’t matter how smart or dumb we are as individuals; the interconnection is dumb. We are using gigabytes of bandwidth to communicate two or three bits worth of actual information.

The “dumbing down” has been happening since “Saint” Reagan’s Administration.

How do you think any democrat gets elected??

Sad but true

Good point.