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Upworthy: How we are losing the internet to lowest of low information young libs

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Pandora:
Riffing off Libertas' thread http://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,7755.msg91001.html#new about the speculative decline in human intelligence, I am considering the connection to the low information voter as applies to these two pieces:

From Liberty's Torch, I followed his link to Ace's piece on "Low-Information Snarking Hipsters", and his link to Legal Insurrection's piece on "how BuzzFeed Politics has combined “the culture” and savvy crafting into a highly effective tool for undermining Republicans with subtle and not-so-subtle mockery", featuring a new Lefty website called "Upworthy", wherein ...


--- Quote ---... I learned what millions of very low-information young liberals already knew — there is this website called Upworthy which is one giant liberal activist social media machine which creates viral social media memes in the cause of liberal political activism.

... The Elizabeth Warren post at Upworthy is a prime example of how low information is combined with a political agenda to create a meme which is based on a lack of understanding, but very, very catchy.

As mentioned above, HuffPo ran the post with the same title as the original Upworthy post, Elizabeth Warren Asks The Most Obvious Question Ever And Stumps A Bunch Of Bank Regulators.
--- End quote ---

Levinson's post on Warren's simply brilliant, "most obvious", stumping question can be found http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/02/elizabeth-warrens-heroic-senate-demagoguery/

charlesoakwood:

It's revolting isn't it?  In order to win one must
win the competition for the low information voter.
Jon Stewart, David Letterman as conservatives; 
perish the thought.

Weisshaupt:

--- Quote from: Charles Oakwood on February 18, 2013, 04:08:41 PM ---
It's revolting isn't it?  In order to win one must
win the competition for the low information voter.
Jon Stewart, David Letterman as conservatives; 
perish the thought.

--- End quote ---

No we just need to start a fad that is likely to kill 80%  of the participants  - but in a way that is "very, very catchy" so it doesn't stop them to paus and think about it.
Something like this:

Robot Chicken: Skater McGee

or this

http://www.myspace.com/video/goochkicksass/numb-chucking/4142667


Any other  ideas?

Libertas:
Weisshaupt has a good idea, lets encourage natural selection, make it hip and trendy to do something monumentally idiotic and let nature take its course!

 ::clapping::

AlanS:
I always thought the Jackass movies would have done more.

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