Occam's Razor at PCU by Diane Alden
Is the Dumbing Down of America working?
42 percent of American adults cannot locate Japan on a world map, and 15 percent cannot even locate the United States.
40 percent of American adults do not know that Germany was our enemy in World War II.
84 percent of American college seniors do not know who was president at the start of the Korean War.
58 percent of American high school seniors cannot understand a newspaper editorial in any newspaper.
According to a U.S. Department of Education survey of 22,000 students in 1995, 50 percent were unaware of the Cold War and 60 percent did not know how the United States came into existence.
63 percent of American adults believe that the earliest human beings lived at the same time as dinosaurs, 53 percent believe the earth revolves around the sun, and 91 percent can't state what a molecule is.
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The collegiate and intellectual left did not blink or break stride when Marxism in the form of communism and socialism failed miserably around the world. They just recreated Marxism in the new skins of political correctness and now it is called progressive, or in most cases, the Democratic Party.
Hillary Clinton, Cynthia McKinney and Sheila Jackson Lee, as well as Patrick Leahy, Teddy Kennedy, Tom Daschle and George Miller would be good examples. The progressive and unaccountable left now probably controls half the votes in the United States. They get their intellectual ammunition from the universities, which everyone, left or right, pays for.
The Betrayal of Liberty on Americas Campuses By Alan Charles Kors