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Thomas Jefferson ridicules unintelligent propositions

Thomas Jefferson ridicules

“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.” Thomas Jefferson.

I recently read a long article going this way and that on vaccinations. The bottom line was that ridicule does no good, it only makes the unintelligent propositioners dig in deeper.  It went on to say that educating and informing unintelligent propositioners does no good either because they are not going to listen to it. That the only way to reason with unintelligent propositioners is to find an educated intelligent person they respect to sit down with them face to face and discuss the failure of their unintelligent proposition in length. Who? Their East Texas preacher? Louie Gohmert? Ted Nugent? Sarah Palin? Bozo? Who has the time?

So to deal with the 75 million or so morons from the Christian Right we have here in America we need to find 75 million soft spoken educated intelligent mentors who they respect and will take the time to go one on one with them to set them right.

Hmmm… I am hard pressed to come up with one yet alone 76 million…   Which leaves…