11 Ways You Know You Live In A Country Run By Idiots

Originally posted by Dr. Eowyn at Fellowship of The Minds blog,

1. If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country 

illegally, you live in a country run by idiots.

2. If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or take an aspirin in school, but 

not to get an abortion, you live in a country run by idiots.

3. If you have to show identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor or check out a 

library book, but not to vote on who runs the government, you live in a country run by idiots.

4. If the government wants to ban stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines with 

more than ten rounds, but gives 20 F-16 fighter jets to the crazy leaders in Egypt, you live in a 

country run by idiots.

5. If, in the largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not a 24-ounce soda because 24-

ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat, you live in a country run by idiots.

6. If an 80-year-old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA but a woman in a hijab is only 

subject to having her neck and head searched, you live in a country run by idiots.

7. If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend 

trillions more, you live in a country run by idiots.

8. If a seven year old boy can be thrown out of grade school for saying his teacher’s “cute,” but 

hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable, you live in 

a country run by idiots.

9. If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government intrusion, while not 

working is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid, subsidized housing and free cell 

phones, you live in a country run by idiots.

10. If the government’s plan for getting people back to work is to incentivize NOT working, with 99 

weeks of unemployment checks and no requirement to prove they applied but can’t find work,you 

live in a country run by idiots.

11. If being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you more “safe” according to the 

government, you live in a country run by idiots.