Stupid stupid stupid stupid

[n2doc]

--Only 2 in 5 voters can name the three branches of the federal government.

--Nearly half (49%) of Americans think the president has the authority to suspend the Constitution.

--Only 1 in 7 can find Iraq on a map.

--A majority (70%) continued to believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11, even after the 9/11 Commission reported that the claim was groundless.

--Only 1 in 5 know that there are 100 federal senators.

--Only one-fifth of Americans between ages 18-34 bother to keep up with current events.

http://www.bobedwardsradio.com/blog/2008/7/7/rick-shenkman-and-the-truth-about-the-american-voter.html

[ClassWarrior]

1. Not stupid. Under-educated and overworked.

NGU.

[JuniperLea]

3. Or willfully ignorant...

Willing to let BushCo tell them everything they need to know.

[jpcrecom]

2. I love these links

http://weblogs.amny.com/news/politics/newyork/blog/2008/05/_by_jeff_as_a_1.html#more


10 percent think Barrack Obama is Muslim.
18 percent think the sun revolves around the Earth.
19 percent accept the presence of spells and witchcraft.
22 percent think George W. Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks before they happened.
30 percent STILL think that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
31 percent think the Bible is 100 percent accurate and can be taken literally word-for-word.
31 percent can't name the current vice president.
39 percent think that humanity is "definitely" less than 10,000 years old.
47 percent think that the earliest humans lived at the same time as the dinosaurs.
50 percent ages 18-24 can't find New York on a map.
53 percent would refuse to vote for an atheist for president, which is a higher percentage than who would refuse to vote for a black, woman, Muslim, homosexual, 72-year-old or twice-divorced candidate.
65 percent can't name whose face is on the nickel.

I guess "love" isn't the right word. I kind of makes me sad, actually. But I love stats, so these types of things intrigue me. Keep 'em coming.

[theoldman]

4. One in five believe the sun rotates around the earth.

90% believe being gay is a choice. 60% do not believe in evolution. Hey, we are a religious people.

[madokie]

5. I'm not sure as a young kid on my way to Vietnam if I could have shown you where the country was

on the map because I can remember my wondering why we went from San Francisco to Alaska to Japan to Cam Rahn Bay

Thats strange my spell checker just capitalized for me San Francisco and Alaska but not japan, again just there too. :shrug: oh well

[undeterred]

6. Sounds exactly like Bush coming into office.

We have such amazingly low standards.

[gratuitous]

7. There are powerful forces at work in our society

Those forces can profit off of people's ignorance, so they work to keep as large a segment of society as they can ignorant, unthinking, and lacking the skill to examine things critically. They work on a number of fronts, from keeping public schools operating on a shoestring to spreading disinformation.

This may be one of the silver linings to the cloud of high oil prices. People are, for the first time that I can really see, beginning to question mindless consumerism. Life events as routine as a trip to the grocery store are being weighed and considered in a way they haven't been before. In trying to afford gasoline, some folks are checking their spending habits in other areas of their lives. Some have even gone so far as to examine whether they need to drive everywhere for everything. This is bad news for the forces I mentioned in the first paragraph, but it could be very good news for our society and culture.

[DailyGrind51]

8. Why do you think they are so easily duped?

[Thothmes]

9. Fine examples of public education in this country.

[Breeze54]

10. Fine examples of the Repukes devasting public and all education in this country!!

LNCB is BS!!!

[Thothmes]

11. I am afraid that the devastation of public education

preceeds the Bush administration by many years. They are just the most recent chapter.