Posted on 05/04/2015 6:24:24 PM PDT by winedarksea
Just because you’re not interested in politics doesn’t mean politics isn’t interested in you. Americans seem to have forgotten this dictum.
A brand-new poll, taken in the form of an online survey, was just issued by the Pew Research Center. It paints a melancholy picture about the abysmal state of knowledge the U.S. public possesses on public affairs – the more so when you reflect that self-selection was probably present. In other words, you probably are brighter than Joe Sixpack if you could be bothered to take the test in the first place.
Most people knew who Martin Luther King was, and most could identify Kim Jong-un, the demented dictator of North Korea. But when you get to the less obvious media-centered identifications, the knowledge base of Americans starts to dry up.
More than a quarter couldn’t identify the controversial Keystone XL pipeline’s projected route through the nation. Only 72% of those asked could pick out the nation’s unemployment rate from an unmarked graph. Only half the national sample could correctly identify the U.S. Senate breakdown by party ID – wait, does this mean that half the voters don’t actually know that the Republicans control the Senate? Why, yes, that’s exactly what it means. And half don’t know who liberal lioness Sen. Elizabeth Warren is. A whopping 67% can’t say how many women are on the Supreme Court.
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kardouchians.................. What a worthless clan of self centered, all about me, asshats. NO redeeming social value.
yeah, they’re all morons, bug why do i find kim so hot?
Kardashians what a stereotypical Wal-Mart shopper would look like if they won the lottery.
LOL! Well duh. It’s obviously glow-bull warming. Hello!?
lol
lol....
Kardashian: Same thing.
The cynic in me admires them. They’ve gotten wealth and fame by exploiting the idiot publics’ hunger for vapid fake reality tv bulls**t.
All started with Kim’s sex tape, an idea she stole from Paris Hilton. The child of a quasi-famous man (her dead father was one of OJ’s lawyers) makes amuetur porn and becomes “famous for being famous”. And the rest of family, famous for being related to someone who’s famous for being famous. God bless America! Do jihadists have a point? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
If OJ hadn’t picked up that knife we may have never heard of them, thanks OJ!
LOL! No, curse you oj.
I see your point.
But....
These are the same morons who helped elect Obama twice.
Who live with mommy and daddy unemployed or with low paying idiot jobs.
Many here wonder about the employers call for H1B visas to get skilled workers to do jobs our millenniumers cant do.
Indians and Koreans do them.
Just look at what we got here as an alternative.
'Hope and Change'
I was gonna make a sex tape. But i would have got arrested for inadequate exposure. :0
Donald Trump ??
I agree, if only we could put those saps in the hypnotic trance as they do.
Looks like no one actually read the article.
That whole f***ing klan of freaks, whores, sycophants and leeches needs to be eradicated from this planet, period.
I’d spare Kendall Jenner.
", if only we could put those saps in the hypnotic trance as they do."
Indeed. That's not a bad idea, engage the idiot rabble on their own level. Put the GOP POTUS candidates on an island with some strippers and celebrity chefs.
You’d probably lose your job too! Regular people lose the respect of society when they whore themselves out, imagine that!
She’s all yours.
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