BREAKING NEWS: U.S. looking to become “The most gullible country on the planet.” Just how easy are we to persuade or deceive? How totally gullible must we seem to politicians, corporate America, lobbyists and media reporters? Watch any news cycle, read any group of blog posts and you truly have to actively suspend your sense of intelligence, your disbelief and your gut feelings or intuition. As we’re spoon-fed the spin, we seem content sucking it up and swallowing it down. It seems that believing the bravado and BS, duped by the disinformation is now a U.S. pastime.

How thick or how shallow, how dense or foolish must one be to drink the constant flow of Kool-Aid we are offered these days? True, the vapid and the vacuous walk among us. You can’t debate it. That said, what percentage of the voting population falls for the fairy-tail du jour each and every day?

Now I know what you are thinking. President Obama can stop the oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, BP didn’t brake and rules or laws leading up to the disaster, President Clinton didn’t offer Joe Sestak a position of value to drop out of the race with Arlen Specter, the National Guard will stop illegal immigration on our southern border, and the health care bill isn’t about redistributing of wealth and on and on and on. Blah, blah, blah.

Soon you will find a daily “Gullibility Index” here on BrianBrawdy.com. Not unlike a UV or Pollen index,  graded on a scale of 1-10, each day I will follow the stories making news and, with the help of my friends on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace will calculate a mathematical dip-stick highlighting just how naive you and I would have to be to trust in what we are being told.

It’s not about conspiracy theories, it’s about common sense, which of late, isn’t as common or as sensical as the term would suggest.

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