Capitol Hill Quiet On Tech

An anonymous reader writes "This year's Democratic-controlled Congress largely ignored technological issues in favor of social problems, CNet notes in another 2007 retrospective. Issues important to the tech industry (such as net neutrality) received short shrift, while the political body spent a considerable amount of time decrying the evils of the Internet. 'Hot topics this time around included foreign cybersecurity threats to U.S. government systems, terrorist cells flourishing on the Web, inadvertent file sharing through peer-to-peer networks, and sexual predators ensnaring unsuspecting youth through online social sites. And for a third time, the House passed not just one, but two, different bills aimed at deterring spyware.'"

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Idiocracy

[mosel-saar-ruwer]

Because, that's what your typical voter is concerned about because that's what they understand and what's been hyped in the media.

The keyword here is YOUR.

Whose voters are these, anyway?

Well, the summary of the article gives it away:

This year's democrat-controlled Congress largely ignored technological issues in favor of social problems, CNet notes in another 2007 retrospective.

I don't think most high-IQ leftist intellectuals [e.g. your typical university professors] yet realize quite how profoundly stupid the typical Democrat voter has become.

Frankly, there are vast armies of Democrat voting blocks which are, for all intents and purposes, mentally retarded.

By the way, this question - namely, the catastrophic decline of intelligence, and the exponential rise in stupidity - will very soon come to dwarf all other socio-political phenomena.

If you want to get an excellent preview of the general day-to-day rhythm & tenor of the remainder of your life, then rent Idiocracy: If smart people don't start making more babies, and start making them soon, then we are all doomed.

Re:Tech issues don't get votes.

[bbdb]

Please, try to remind these people that they are public servants.

Please try to get real. Public Choice Theory
"At the heart of all public choice theories then is the notion that an official at any level, be they in the public or private sector, "acts at least partly in his own self- interest, and some officials are motivated solely by their own self-interest." (Downs, Anthony, Inside Bureaucracy (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967))"