The Ding-Dong Rank

We struggled with this one.  Ding-Dong is not in most dictionaries.  We finally found Ding-dong in the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.

Ding-dong:  1.  The peel of  a bell.  2. Slang.  An empty-headed person; a fool.

Ding-bat is close.  1.  Slang.  An empty-headed or silly person.

Or Ding-a-ling. Informal.  A person who is scatterbrained or eccentric.

Maybe Scatterbrain.  A person regarded as flighty, thoughtless or disorganized.

If you have a set of facts and you think things through and you are logical, you reach a conclusion.  To be fair, if you have no bias or if you have a bias, you realize this affects your conclusion.  An agenda is a bias, agreed?

If a person, a political party, a country says one thing and does another, how do you define that behavior?

We could have used The Stupid Rank, but stupid does not define conscious behavior in the face of facts.

We could have used The Dummy Rank, but that is the same as The Stupid Rank.  The person might know exactly what they are doing.  They have an agenda.

A person who thinks they have fooled you is a fool.  A person who lies to you is a fool.  A person who cannot connect the facts is empty-headed, a fool.  A person who says one thing and does another is a fool.

Perhaps we should have used The Fools Rank, but sometimes people are simply stupid, empty-headed.  Or they consciously made the decision to act contrary to facts.  They are not stupid.

We settled on The Ding-Dong Rank. We think you have the idea, unless of course, you are a Ding-Bat.

The Ding-Dong Rankings run from one to ten.  The smarter you are, the higher the rank.  Ten is brilliant, thinks things through and uses logic and empathy to make decisions. A One is braindead, no empathy, no sympathy, no logic, perhaps a political animal who lies to everyone and thinks that’s OK.