re: #155 SteveMcGazi

There was an All in the Family episode in which Archie confronts a racist group that thought he would go along with them to burn a cross. He reminds them that he knows all of their names and threatened to out them if they went ahead.

Archie went to war and came back and the world had changed. He didn’t get to go to college because he had to support his family. Then he met Edith and had Gloria and got caught-up in life. Who doesn’t?

Somehow in all of it he absorbed the basics of his Christian upbringing, but not the rhetoric. He knew right from wrong essentially. His world view was hijacked by a lot of things, I think it has a lot to do with the effects of war on society.

Yet, he went to work and came home every day. He didn’t break the law. I’m not sure he even broke the commandments. I can’t remember if he swore. did he?

He was ignorant, but not stupid.

Ignorant can learn, stupid can’t.

I’m not sure I can say the same about the current GOP. They are simply brainwashed and stupid.