The representatives that Americans elect to office prove they know nothing about American Civics. They are dumb.
Here are two articles that document just how dumb Americans have become. Americans cannot even pass a basic civics test and the people they elect are worse educated than they are. Perhaps you should have to get a minimum grade on a civics test to prove that you have some knowledge of how our system operates before a person should be allow to vote. The second article just reaffirms the dumbing down of America that explains why Americans elect fools to lead them. What does that say about our failed public education system? All Americans who cannot get a passing grade on a basic civics test and all responsible for our educational system deserve my Demented, Delusional or Dumb Club award.
American Public Flunks Basic Civics - HUMAN EVENTS
*Fully 71 percent of Americans flunked a 33-question civic-literacy survey conducted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Among 2,508 respondents ISI randomly selected, 1,791 failed this test of U.S. historical, political, and economic basics. The average score was just 49 out of 100 — a solid F. While just 2.6 percent scored Bs on this quiz,
*Just 49 percent of rank-and-file Americans can identify the legislature, executive, and judiciary as our three branches of government.
*Forty percent of college graduates have no idea that corporate profits equal revenues minus expenses. (Thus, congressional demagoguery about “windfall profits” falls on sympathetic ears.) Only 24 percent of college grads realize that the First Amendment forbids the establishment of an official U.S. religion.
*Amazingly enough, this sample’s 164 self-identified elected officials know even less than laymen. They averaged only 44, as the blind lead the bland. Among office holders, 30 percent did not know that the Declaration of Independence heralds “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
“Our study raises significant questions about whether citizens who voted in this year’s landmark presidential election really understand how our system of representative democracy works,” said Dr. Richard Brake, ISI’s Director of University Stewardship.
Lt. General Josiah Bunting III, the chairman of ISI’s National Civic Literacy Board, describes his initial reaction to these results as “somewhat short of despair, certainly one of depression.” He adds: “These questions are designed to elicit answers to fundamental questions. A citizen should know that the president cannot declare war. A citizen should know the circumstances of the founding of the country.”
The grim results of ISI’s study reveal a crisis in this nation’s defining concept. In 1776, America’s Founding Fathers broke with Britain and established a country where men and women liberated from monarchic despotism would rule themselves, provided they were equipped with the requisite knowledge and wisdom. Will a people mesmerized by the televised humiliation of wannabe pop stars maintain this essential capacity for self-government? Thomas Jefferson’s warning remains as timely as ever: “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free…it expects what never was and never will be.”
Obama-King of Fools - HUMAN EVENTS
Trying to explain how our economy works and why lowering taxes is always better for them and their country, than imposing higher taxes is an economic bridge too far for many of the Obama sheep. Unfortunately there is no “See Spot & the Economy Run” book for the hooked on phonics crowd. Many of these numbskulls can’t balance a check book or spell “e-c-o-n-o-m-i-c-s” but they sure know who will give them stuff. The lie is impossible.
Expecting these idiotscitizens to have analyzed the tax positions of Obama and McCain and arrive at a decision that truly benefits them and America is wishful thinking. The reason is that they know zilch about how the economy operates and worse, don’t care. Bama will take care of us. Four very scary things-a sow grizzly with cubs at closerange, a coiled rattlesnake in striking distance, me in a rental car in the left lane, and dunces with credit cards.
And indeed they are dunces, products of a tax burning, failed public education system. That is, if they even bothered to complete high school. They don’t read newspapers or books, and even if they did, I got twenty bucks that says they couldn’t comprehend what they read. They are morons in the first degree. And clearly, they vote.
If and when President Obama attempts to impose his wrong-headed, punitive tax structure, their stupidity is going to come back to thump them upside their vacuous heads with a very painful crowbar of reality. The economy works in strange and wondrous ways and has a unique way of severely punishing fools. Rare justice is a beautiful thing.
These dunderheads have no clue how the economic mess was largely caused by Democrats, including Obama. But Obama, recognizing how gullible, naive and dumb many of his supporters are, drummed it into them that the economic mess was caused by President Bush and the Republicans and that he is going to give 95% of Americans a tax cut when 40% of Americans don’t even pay any federal taxes. Investing deception capital in the stupidity of his supporters was a very wise move on Obama’s part. That is if you don’t really care about anything except getting elected.
Date posted: Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 1:21 pm | Under category: Danger to the US, Demented delusional or dumb club of the week award, delusion, dumb, ignorance, politics
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Thanks for another great blog. I had to take the test. I am embarrassed to say I only scored 72.73% and had 2 wrong in the economics section
But I always was a C student in Social Studies, and I was public schooled through 11th grade - that’s my excuse and I am sticking to it 
I probably would have done worse if I hadn’t homeschooled my daughter for her junior high years, and did not spend so much time reading: I higly doubt I retained it all since 1991 when I took my GED. My husband who was private schooled and has a graduate degree scored an 87.87%. Learn a lesson here parents: private school definately pays off.
I am glad to see we are both at least qualified to vote, lol.
I am going to have my son, a 2008 high school graduate take it, and see how he does. I will let you know.
But getting back to the main point, especially in the just plain dumb voting, I couldn’t agree more. I never understood the whole get-out-the-vote movement. Why chase people to vote? Any nominally educated person who wants to vote should know they can register free at their local post office. Anyone who is not so motivated, or educated, is not, in my humble opinion, entitled to vote. And, furthermore, they shame the very people who fought so hard and valiantly for their “rights”. If I was a minority, I would be embarrassed.
But why chance winning an election based on the majority of the registered vote when you can stack the deck in your favor?
Betty
I just found the test and took the test. I got 91% correct so I guess I can vote. I put a link to the test on the original post
Some of the questions could have been better and could have asked more important civic topics. A few seem to be there more for conservative political purposes rather than to test one’s knowledge of civics, but I got all but one of those right. I also missed on the issue of the Lincoln’s Marshall debate in 1858 and the Puritan view. But come on, who really cares today? Knowing these things would change nothing for the better in America. Seems that they put questions in there that they knew we would miss to make us Americans look even dumber then we already are. If they replaced about a third of the questions this would have been a good civics test and I bet most Americans still would have missed half of them.
At least they could have asked the name of the second President to be impeached by the House. Or why half of the powerful people in or advising government are card carrying CFR club members?
Yay! I answered 26 out of 33 correctly so I scored 78.79 % . I’m a non-US citizen and non-resident… Now where’s my green card and my free ticket! Not to mention that Cadillac so I can get around.
Don, I just can’t believe you were wrong on the question of the Puritans, you damned heretic!!!
Why didn’t they ask about the reverse side of the U.S. seal? Everyone should know by now that the United States is an elite project set up by Illuminati freemasons and Jews to subject the world to their rule, aka New World Order!
And not even a word about George Looney and Al Bore?! Barbarians! 
Seriously though I wonder why they asked nothing about the 1st world war or the Korean or Vietnam wars. And who’s the best American actor [Clint Eastwood of course]?
Not to mention the collapse of the Soviet Union? Or Armstrong’s landing on the moon and the first words he spoke?
But oh yeah I forgot that was just a forgery that was filmed in some NASA studio, right, sorry !!
Funny stuff.
In my defense. Who would have thought the answer on the Puritans would be about their religious beliefs? That does not seem politically correct to me.
I think they should of asked what movie star was in bed with Jack Kennedy or what was the connection between Monica and Clinton.
Lol. Just as long as they don’t start about Britney Spears. I can already hear the fans screaming “Leave her alone!”… Boohoo!
I tend to agree on the Puritans. They had better asked about the Mayflower instead, the symbol of America’s colonization by English settlers who wanted to escape the tyranny in old Europe.
Everyone here knows that the Mayflower is a moving company.
Congradulations!
Well, I only earned an 82% and I missed the Puritan question as well! (It was a toss-up between religious freedom and the sinfulness of man.)
As a half-hearted defense, I will say that these things were taught in my schools, but I started taking them seriously only in my later years.
I scored over 80% and I didn’t even finish High School Take that college grads. I missed all economic questions and I really never have understood economics.
Yes, none of these questions where college-level. I missed the historical ones, rather than the ones about how the system is (supposed) to work.
I found some of the questions to be very confusing: did they want it to tell them how things are SUPPOSED to work, or how they actually work in our (now) dysfunctional system.
It obviously was written by a conservative who believes in the government we were supposed to have.
Nobody learns anything about this in College unless they are studying to be a American historian. This is grade school stuff except for the economics.