The Forrest Gump Protocol:
What was the message in that movie?
The message was this: the smartest liberal, remember Jenny, she did everything the liberal intellectuals told her to do; she tuned-in, turned-on, dropped out, and took drugs. She almost jumped off the hotel balcony to commit suicide, remember?
She believed in social justice, man, and she joined the Black Panthers and she got beaten up, remember? She didn’t believe in the Judeo-Christian tradition of monogamy, she slept around, free-love, and she died of AIDS. The entire point of the movie Forrest Gump was that the smartest liberal was stupider than a mentally-retarded conservative.
The truth is [that] being good and decent doesn’t require a lot of cleverness.
It doesn’t require a lot of deep thought. You don’t have to spend a lot of time at the university. Being a good conservative is very simple. Be good, be kind, be decent, look after your friends, look after your family, be responsible, believe in things bigger than yourself.
As Mr. Sayet's and my common friend Douglas V. Gibbs likes to say, conservative comedians have the easiest job on the planet, because their political enemies are already writing all their material. All they have to do is point it out.
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