Your interpretation of the elections is just plain wrong. Once anybody starts throwing around “low information voter” they’re blaming the wrong side, look at the “low quality candidates”. Who should people have voted for instead of Obama? Romney who is just as big a socialist as Obama? Bachman who’s clearly a loon and lacks a lot of critical thinking of her own? Ron Paul the Truther (talk about critical thinking issues)? The only one of the candidates I liked at all was Caine, and his bailing once things got tough he fled thus showing his candidacy was actually a book tour. There were NO quality candidates, same in 2008. It’s not the voters fault nobody worth a crap ran, they get to vote for who runs, they don’t get to CHOOSE who runs.
The vast majority of what I learned in school I’ve never used, it doesn’t apply to me, it doesn’t apply to most people. When teenagers are complaining about that they’re probably write. Probably the single most useful class I ever took was typing, math was useful through algebra but nothing after that has ever applied, Latin was probably my second most useful class taught me more English than English class ever did. Probably the least useful class ever was free enterprise, it actually made me dumber, no really the teacher gave a bunch of us the final on the first day of class as an experiment, then we took the same final at the end and I got 4 fewer points.
If you want smart people in politics go ahead, join the race. No good blaming other smart people for choosing productive lives over politics while you yourself produce rather than rule.
And truthfully NOTHING in that test is about critical thinking, we could teach critical thinking just fine in the modern curricula, any problems there are with the method not the content.
only one of the candidates I liked at all was Caine...
Probably the single most useful class I ever took was typing, math was useful through algebra but nothing after that has ever applied,...
Probably the least useful class ever was free enterprise, it actually made me dumber, no really the teacher gave a bunch of us the final on the first day of class as an experiment, then we took the same final at the end and I got 4 fewer points.
I guess you didn't learn (or don't use) much spelling, punctuation, or grammar in your line of work. ;^)