Smart Pills for America

I consider myself a pretty intelligent person, but for the life of me I don’t understand how it is possible for any intelligent person to think that by returning to policies that were instigated in 2000 by George Bush and with which we lived for 8 years; that gave us two wars (unpaid for, BTW); unequaled and unrestricted spending while reducing taxes and therefore reducing revenues to pay for everything; that brought the country to it’s economic knees by fostering an environment of non-regulation resulting in debt that is only now being fully realized;

will somehow be better than:

a reversal of the downward spiral in unemployment caused by those policies; a steady creation of jobs (albeit not as robust as we all would like); the salvaging of the automobile industry and the agreement by all major auto companies to increase average mileage to over 54mpg by 2025 and thereby reduce our dependence on foreign oil; the relentless pursuit of terrorists and the bringing to justice or killing of most of the bad guys; the passage of a health care law that will for the first time provide coverage for people with pre-existing conditions as well as create insurance options for 45 million people who currently aren’t insured under the old system; an administration that has reduced spending more than any of the last 50 years.

What am I missing?  Is the populace so misguided and susceptible to fallacious arguments and misrepresentations? 

Or are they just dumb people with no memory?