To: Gondring; Pelham; Jim Robinson
I’d like to see more effort put into educating the layman, winning hearts and minds of the electorate, rather than trying to fight in the halls of power. With the votes and The People, we can win.
Are you familiar with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute? They conducted a civics survey not too long ago:
American Civic Literacy
Feel free to shudder upon reading the overall results.
152 posted on
02/12/2009 5:08:17 PM PST by
Das Outsider
(Purveyor of subversive literature)
To: Das Outsider
Yes. I know them quite well and have worked with them.
And I scored 100% :-)
Thanks for posting the info.
170 posted on
02/12/2009 5:31:04 PM PST by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: Das Outsider
American Civic LiteracyThat was fun. I scored 84% (and got the Gettysburg Address question wrong--I'm so embarrassed). You're right that the overall statistics are appalling, but it's not surprising. The liberals have been dumbing down the public schools for 40 years, and this week it paid off for them.
305 posted on
02/14/2009 1:25:43 PM PST by
American Quilter
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