I have referenced this study throughout the week, so I figured I would include it in the Nuze today because that’s just the kind of guy I am.  The study I am referring to was conducted by a Stanford university professor, Gerald Crabtree.  His study basically boils down to this: We are getting dumber.  He argues that humanity is getting dumber due to the lack of Darwinian competition.

He’s right!  Think about it.  Much in part to entitlement-minded government policies, we have essentially made it impossible NOT to work or to use your head to survive … even if you are dumber than a box of rocks you are going to thrive because you have a paternalistic government out there watching you. The government works hard (with other productive people’s money) to protect you from competition and the pitfalls of life.  As a result, we’ve lost our basic survival skills and our ability to think because it simply is no longer necessary in order to survive.  You don’t need to be bright enough to take care of yourself, because the government is going to take care of you.

Get the point? This study goes a long way to explaining what happened to our Republic last week.  

Now I am going to throw one more study into the mix.  I actually discovered this study after reading Tom Coburn’s latest report on wasteful government spending in the Department of Defense.  OK .. so was it absolutely crucial to the future of our Republic that the taxpayers fund this study?  Um, hell no.  But I think you’ll enjoy the results nonetheless.

The purpose of the study was to use fish in order to study democracy.  So these Princeton researchers trained a group of fish to swim toward a blue target.  In the meantime, there was another “strongly opinionated” minority group of fish that naturally swam toward a yellow target.  So, we have fish that trained to go toward blue and then a minority group of fish which are naturally attracted to the yellow target.  When put together, all of the fish ended up swimming toward the minority-preferred yellow target that the “opinionated” fish preferred.  Then, the researchers started to introduce “untrained fish” into the mix.  These fish were not trained to go toward any target and they did not prefer the yellow target like the minority.  So we have a majority of the fish trained to go toward the blue, an opinioned minority going toward the yellow and a bunch of newly untrained fish who have to decide where to go.  In the end, the untrained fish ended up going with the majority crowd and swimming toward the blue target.  In other words, “The researchers report that in animal groups, uninformed individuals— as in those with no prior knowledge or strong feelings on a situation’s outcome— tend to side with and embolden the numerical majority.”  They go with the flow, if you will. 

Can you not relate that to what just happened to our Republic last week?  Low information voters will naturally side with the majority.  In this case, the majority was held by Barack Obama.  These sheeple won’t be swayed by the opinionated minority, so long as there is safety in numbers.