Posted on 03/21/2019 12:17:19 PM PDT by rktman
Nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe the First Amendment is under threat, according to a new survey, yet a large portion of respondents couldn’t correctly name what the amendment protects.
Of the 2,000 adults who took part in the poll, half thought that “liberty” is one of the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment, while nearly half (49 percent) believed “the pursuit of happiness” was included. Thankfully, only 3 percent named “life” as one of the protected freedoms.
What’s more, barely more than a quarter (26 percent) of participants knew how many amendments even comprise the Bill of Rights. In fact, 1 in 5 people wasn’t even familiar with the Bill of Rights when asked.
Despite the struggle with what should be common American knowledge, the survey — commissioned by the Samuel Hubbard Shoe Company — revealed that 57 percent of respondents feel the First Amendment is at risk in the nation’s current climate. Many people point to bias in the media and the rise of fake news as main reasons for their concern. One in seven admit they have trouble telling the difference between real and fake news, while 31 percent agree the mainstream media struggles to report the news of the day without inserting bias within their coverage.
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Yup.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED for the public school system.
I bet more than half don’t know that the first says nothing about separation of church and state.
And I'd bet that even more don't know that such a statement is unnecessary ...
That’s because someplace in the constitution it says you may never mention God in a government office. It’s near where abortion “rights” are promised and where it says the 2nd amendment doesn’t really mean what it says.
Maybe they’re not sure where to find the BOR?
“I don’t think it’s any accident that the educational system in America has been brought to its current state. Because only a totally uneducated mass of people will be baffled by balloons. And yellow ribbons and little flags and buzz words and guys saying “new world order” and ... like that, I mean, only a person who has been dissuaded from any kind of critical thinking and doesn’t know geography, doesn’t know the English language – I mean if you can’t speak English, then this stuff works on you.
One of the things that was taken out of the curriculum was civics. Civics was a class that used to be required before you could graduate from high school. You were taught what was in the U.S. Constitution. And after all the student rebellions in the ‘60s, civics was banished from the student curriculum and was replaced by something called social studies. Here we live in a country that has a fabulous constitution and all these guarantees, a contract between the citizens and the government – nobody knows what’s in it. It’s one of the best kept secrets. And so, if you don’t know what your rights are, how can you stand up for them? And furthermore, if you don’t know what is in that document, how can you care if someone is shredding it?” Frank Zappa
This is a yuge ‘success’ of the liberal/progressive government controlled public education system. Goebbels would be proud.
Freedom to text and take selfies.
I wants the freedom to have a Obama foam. And Reparations.
Yes I do.
“And Reparations.”
The reparation should be repatriation.
The end of the American school system happened roughly a hundred years ago. Knowledge is power and our future is bleak.
The list of 1st Amendment Freedoms from memory.
The right to have chicken tenders with every meal.
The right to speedy and free travel.
24/7 TV.
The right to not be arrested if I don’t think what I did should be a crime.
The right to have people banned from the internet for triggering me.
The right to make up things that trigger me.
There. I think I got them all.
What’s stunning is that any Americans= can name just one freedom enshrined in the First.
In a debate at Widener Law School, Senate Candidate Christine O’Donnell asked Senate Candidate Chris Coons to name the First Amendment freedoms. He could not; but worse still, the mostly law student assembly laughed ... at her for asking.
Truly sad state of affairs.
I think you forgot: The right to hate anyone that doesn’t like my “Hate Has No Home Here” sign. /s
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