Ever Feel Like a Tiny Speck of Common Sense Adrift in a Sea of Idiots?

What he hell? Apparently I live in a world of tuned-out morons; idiots who shouldn’t even get out of bed in the morning before they put on a helmet and all manner of protective gear.

What has piqued my ire, you ask? Well let me tell you…A Zogby poll was conducted recently and showed that 77% of respondents could name two of the seven dwarfs, but only 24% could name two Supreme Court justices. One would think that given the events of the last year most people could at least name Chief Justice John Roberts and associate justice Samuel Alito, if not John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Clarence Thomas and Steven Breyer. (For the record, I consider it a point of honor that I can't name all seven of the dwarves without a Google search.)

Someone please tell me what direct impact the seven dwarfs have on the life of average Americans? None that I can come up with; but the Supreme Court? Now those folks have lifetime tenure and virtually unchecked power. Those nine individuals have more power over your life than any president, congressman, senator, governor or any elected official. They can hand down decisions that affect your very rights. They can hand down rulings that allow your property to be seized for commercial venture through eminent domain. They can, with a one-vote majority, eliminate reproductive freedom for half the citizens of our country. They can rein in the executive and toss laws passed by wide margins and popular support on the grounds that they are unconstitutional. Their interpretation is final, and most always permanent. Dopey, Sneezy, Happy, Doc et al don’t hold that kind of sway over anyone’s life, not even Snow White’s.
Wake the fuck up, America. This kind of stumbling through life and ignoring the important in favor of the frivolous is how we got here, to this point in history. Look at reality for a minute…we have a bumbling moron as the Chief Executive, a bloodthirsty craven puppet-master as Vice, a delusional sociopath as Secretary of Defense, a feckless thug as chief presidential advisor, and two legislative bodies stacked to the rafters with boot-licking sycophants who have no qualms about sending your children to fight and die in a war that was predicated on fiction.