From the “altered state” history department and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation comes this worrying revelation that popped out of a survey. See red emphasis below.
NATIONAL SURVEY FINDS JUST 1 IN 3 AMERICANS
WOULD PASS CITIZENSHIP TEST
PRINCETON, N.J. (Oct. 3, 2018) – Only one in three Americans (36 percent) can actually pass a multiple choice test consisting of items taken from the U.S. Citizenship Test, which has a passing score of 60, according to a national survey released today by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Only 13 percent of those surveyed knew when the U.S. Constitution was ratified, even on a multiple-choice exam similar to the citizenship exam, with most incorrectly thinking it occurred in 1776. More than half of respondents (60 percent) didn’t know which countries the United States fought in World War II. And despite the recent media spotlight on the U.S. Supreme Court, 57 percent of those surveyed did not know how many Justices actually serve on the nation’s highest court.
“With voters heading to the polls next month, an informed and engaged citizenry is essential,” Woodrow Wilson Foundation President Arthur Levine said. “Unfortunately this study found the average American to be woefully uninformed regarding America’s history and incapable of passing the U.S. Citizenship Test. It would be an error to view these findings as merely an embarrassment. Knowledge of the history of our country is fundamental to maintaining a democratic society, which is imperiled today.”
Levine went on to say that knowledge of American history is not an academic exercise, and that the future demands it. “Americans need to understand the past in order to make sense of a chaotic present and an inchoate future. History is both an anchor in a time when change assails us and a laboratory for studying the changes that are occurring. It offers the promise of providing a common bond among Americans in an era in which our divisions are profound and our differences threaten to overshadow our commonalities,” Levine added.
Most Americans Don’t Know the Facts About Country’s Founding
The poll, conducted by Lincoln Park Strategies, a nationally recognized full-service analytic research firm that partners with corporate and non-profit clients around the globe to meet all of their research and data needs, has a margin of error of ±3 percent with a random sample of 1,000 American citizens. The survey also found that:
- Seventy-two percent of respondents either incorrectly identified or were unsure of which states were part of the 13 original states;
- Only 24 percent could correctly identify one thing Benjamin Franklin was famous for, with 37 percent believing he invented the lightbulb;
- Only 24 percent knew the correct answer as to why the colonists fought the British;
- Twelve percent incorrectly thought WWII General Dwight Eisenhower led troops in the Civil War; 6 percent thought he was a Vietnam War general; and
- While most knew the cause of the Cold War, 2 percent said climate change.
Despite the enormous struggles to demonstrate a basic understanding of American history, most respondents said U.S. history was an appealing subject during their time in school, with 40 percent noting it was their favorite and another 39 percent saying it was somewhere in the middle of favored courses of study.
Age Gaps Exist
Surprisingly, the poll found stark gaps in knowledge depending on age. Those 65 years and older scored the best, with 74 percent answering at least six in 10 questions correctly. For those under the age of 45, only 19 percent passed with the exam, with 81 percent scoring a 59 percent or lower.
American History Initiative
The teaching of American history has traditionally focused on memorization, dates, names and events. This poll shows that these methods of learning history have not been effective. In early 2019, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation will announce a new program designed to change the way in which history is taught and learned.
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About the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Founded in 1945, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (www.woodrow.org) identifies and develops the nation’s best minds to meet its most critical challenges. The Foundation supports its Fellows as the next generation of leaders shaping American society.
I’m actually surprised it isn’t greater than 2 percent, given the low-information types that usually rally around climate change issues. OTOH, it may be that people reached by telephone were just messing with the pollsters by throwing out the wildest possible answer to the question about the cold war.
The most important lesson of history is that we humans are determined to ignore history.
The Left exploits this willful ignorance of history to their advantage.
The left/progressives can only exist with an ignorance/poor population. That’s why they took over the school system to create Obama Phone Food Stamp generations. You want to stay poor vote progressives BIG government into office.
“Only 24 percent knew the correct answer as to why the colonists fought the British.”
I understand the Americans thought they could get a better leader than mad King George III.
And America sometimes succeeded – there were some good leaders along the way, but then recently they have experienced difficulties – Bill was a problem – couldn’t keep it in his pants; Obama was a Harpo Marxist, bent on destroying the country, and Hillary would have been worse – and she sometimes appears as mad as old King George.
Trump, despite his bombastic nature, will probably do all right. He gets energy right, which is critical. He is also calling out the pervasive Marxist infection of American society, especially its educational system and media, which brought us fake news, fake global warming, fake energy, fake memories, fake sexual assault and fake everything else.
Many of these leftists are so deceitful that if they ever told the truth they would probably explode. 🙂
“I understand the Americans thought they could get a better leader than mad King George III.”
Miserly buggers didn’t want to pay their taxes, after we saved them from the French….
LOL
Who is going to save us from the French? We Canadians, that is.
Quebec politics have been batsh!t crazy for 50 years – and corrupt as Hell for longer than that!
All they do is drag down the entire country with their selfish nonsense.
It’s time to restart the Quebec Separatist Movement – this time we’re going to hold a Referendum in the Rest of Canada and TELL THEM TO LEAVE!
“This poll shows that these methods of teaching history are not effective”. Any possibility that it shows that history is not being taught at all????? Or at least a dumbed down version. If older people know the dates, etc maybe it is because they were taught.
Yes, when I went to school as a Baby Boomer, we had to memorize dates and what happened of significance on those dates. But our generation decided that such knowledge was useless and we forced huge changes in the educational system. Now we can look back and see just how dumb we were….
Pamele Matlack-Klein
October 3, 2018 at 12:56 pm
Yes, there were many dumb “experts” back than as there are now in the climate field.
However, the wonderful Climate Skeptics conference you organised in Porto last month was a great step towards a new future. Lots of good ammunition (and some whacky bits too) for us to use to try and change the crazy carbon free future the “experts” are trying to impose on us, even here in NZ with our new Climate Commission.
Many thanks for all the time you all spent on organising the conference for us all.
You are most welcome, Alastair. It was a great conference but all we did was provide a place for people like yourself to gather and discuss the science of a changing climate without resorting to alarmism or hyperbole. And we did it on our own, without funding from anyone, something that is lost on the CAGW folk who never seem to dip into their own pockets to pay for the exotic holidays in foreign cities.
I’m a retired professor. The most common complaint I got from students was why should I know or memorize this, I can always look it up on Google.
The Greatest Speech Every Student Should Hear
https://youtu.be/QObAkF1_6CE
Jordan Peterson
Most people will learn what they believe is important to them. A good teacher will imbue their pupils with a reason why what he is teaching is important. Knowledge without understanding is hard to build upon.
On the other hand, understanding without knowledge is impossible.
Even teachers who want to maintain standards are not being allowed to by Liberal, feel good, school administrators.
Teacher fired after refusing to give credit to students who didn’t turn in homework
“Diane Tirado has been a teacher for years, but she started at West Gate K-8 School in Port St. Lucie in August as an eighth grade U.S. history teacher.
“Teaching is a calling for me,” she said.
She assigned an explorer notebook project, which she said she gave students two weeks to complete.
When several students didn’t turn it in, Tirado found out about what she calls a “no zero” policy, which is reflected in the West Gate student and parent handbook. Below the grading rubric, in red lettering, the handbook states “NO ZEROS- LOWEST POSSIBLE GRADE IS 50%”
“What if they don’t turn anything in?” Tirado said she asked administrators. “‘We give them a 50.’ I go, ‘Oh, we don’t.’ This is not kosher.’”
Tirado was terminated on Sept.14, but there’s no specific cause mentioned in the letter from the principal because she she was still in her probationary period, according to the letter.
On her last day after she was informed, she had to pack up her classroom, Tirado wrote the message to her students on her whiteboard before she left and sent out a picture of it through a class app. Several students responded in support.
“You were right about not giving people 50s because why would you give them half credit for doing nothing?” wrote one student.”
source and read more at:
https://www.azfamily.com/news/teacher-fired-after-refusing-to-give-credit-to-students-who/article_189b319f-275b-5923-be39-120b46c328d3.html
The intentional dumbing-down by the Left of American kids about history and government/civics starts in Jr High and proceeds through High School and College.
Justified under “participation trophy”-like virtue, the Left is leaving the American public malleable
to their manipulations. It is not just a US problem, but at least extends to Canada as well.
Dr Jordan Peterson, Professor of Psychology and University of Toronto discusses this with one of his classes here (a very excellent short YouTube video worth watching):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPfWThToClo
(you can skip ahead to 5:00 minute mark and get the last 2 1/2 minutes)
“communist system has an extensive network of admireres in the West, … especially in academics.”
True story, told to me by one who was there.
There was a professor of Asian extraction who taught statics and dynamics at my school. Widely recognized as a superior teacher, his classes were always loaded. He was also a brutal grader. One innocent went to him after a test and complained about getting a zero for one of the problems.
“Professor, I set up the problem correctly, with all the right formulas and values. I just made a math error. Shouldn’t I get at least partial credit?”
The professor eyed the student for a bit, then replied:
“You graduate Stevens. You engineer. You build bridge. Half of bridge fall down. Noooo partial credit.”
Thus endeth the lesson.
D. J. Hawkins
In the 70’s I sat my Scottish ‘H’ (Higher) grade technical drawing exam.
I miscalculated and positioned my drawing on the page incorrectly. 90% of the drawing was perfect, 10% was missing because it was off the drawing sheet.
I failed the exam.
My own stupid fault. If I couldn’t get the basic orientation calculation right, why should I pass the exam?
Today I would probably have been given 70% for submitting a worthless drawing.
In a similar vein, I failed a Technical Drawing exam (what was then called U.E., or the University Entrance examination) by placing either (I forget which) sight line or horizon line a little bit high (or low). Only mark available to be given, zero.
D.J.,
You just identified the reason behind college age people self sorting themselves into Engineering and Science pursuits or into Liberal Arts degree programs.
There are so many hours in a school day.
The time that used to be taken up by subjects such as history are now being used to make sure that little Johnny is up to date on how CO2 is killing the planet, and why he’s entitled to have everything he wants provided via taxes on people who have more than he does.
Having recently sat through a introduction to political science course with a classroom full of 18-20 year olds, it does not surprise me that the younger tier of their survey scored a 19%. Some of the members of the class couldn’t name the three branches of government, what responsibilities each had, or what document assigned them those responsibilities. It is sad, but not unexpected.
Wait until actual climate alarmists make that claim. Indeed, I am surprised that they have not said yet that Global Warming caused no only the Cold War, but also the two world wars…
It is well known that SST dropped by 0.5 deg in 1946. The UK Met Office said so.
That is what started the cold war.
In the 1970s after 30y of the cold war it was the scientific consensus that we could be on the verge of a new ice age.
In 1990 the Russians stopped the cold war, leading to rapid run-away warming and a massive spike in 1998. Leading scientists like Jimmy Hansen were even warning the world about this as early as 1988 but no one would listen to him.
The rest is history. The Russians did it.
you got a good point there
http://www.vukcevic.co.uk/69-71.htm
“some people believe the “cold war” was caused by “climate change”
Correct !
political climate of warm cooperation between the USA and USSR prevailed during ‘hot war’ 1939-1945. Subsequently in period 1947 – 1991 political climate cooled down descending into ‘cold war’
“Only 24 percent knew the correct answer as to why the colonists fought the British”
Simple : because the King would not give them a refund on their teabags.
yeah…something along those lines, that and granting a state sanctioned monopoly.
well actually it was because the King did give them a refund on their tea making it cheaper
than smuggled Dutch tea causing smugglers to lose money so they responded by dumping
tea into the Boston harbour.
What was kept secret from me over 60 years ago was the fact that the ships and cargo were owned by other Americans. John Hancock was the merchant who smuggled Dutch tea and would suffer substantial losses if the tea were allowed to unload. So his friend John Adams and other rabble dressed up as Indians to eliminate the competition.
So you can attribute the Revolutionary War to Mafia tactic employed by the Yankees years before anyone noticed the Italians organizing Mafia. (which actually originated as an Italian patriotic organization Mote Ale Franciosi Italia Alia (sp) formed to drive French conquerors out of Italy)
Morte
And if you really want to know why the white Americans rebelled against their Government look up “West Virginia: A Guide to the Mountain State” by the Federal Writers’ Project.
The Government in London listened to the complaints of the Iroquois British who felt they were being pushed off their land. King George III forbade expansion into the Allegheny Mountains by the White British. But this was felt to be a denial of their manifest destiny by the White British in the Americas.
The rest is a history of genocide.
Amazingly, tea bags or tea does not appear anywhere in the following.
So let me help you out here:
http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/
I didn’t see anything about tea in there.
I did see numerous grievances though. It looks like declaring independence was the only thing left to do, if one doesn’t like being ruled by a tyrant.
Thanks, for that reminder, Joel.
Reminds me a lot of England’s Magna Carta. I saw one of the originals a couple of years ago, with a ‘translation’ into modern English. Very detailed set of complaints, down to removing fish traps that were impeding river navigation. So, when one is (can we say it) royally teed off, listing all of the problems is a good way to start a solution. Pity the modern British Government has forgotten about that!
Remember, this was written after the blood had already been shed. Some, want everyone to think it was only about tea, taxes and making a profit.
Reply to Joel:
Jesus Joel! What a bunch of complainers… bitch, bitch, bitch…
Do you think the peasants back in Britain had it any better, or the serfs in Scotland and Ireland or the colonies?
If you guys don’t stop your chronic complaining, pretty soon you’ll be dividing into warring camps and tearing each other apart in a brutal Civil War – the most deadly, destructive (and unnecessary) war in USA history. Oh, wait a second – you already did that!
If you guys don’t stop your chronic complaining, pretty soon you’ll be dividing into warring camps and tearing each other apart in a new Cold War, complete with the usual disinformation campaigns – with fake news, fake global warming, fake energy, fake memories, fake sexual assault and fake everything else. You will tear up Clauses 39 and 40 of Magna Carta, the very foundation of our Rule of Law and our prosperity, and criminalize every man – based on the lies of every sociopathic woman. Oh, wait a second – you’re already there! 🙂
Seriously Joel, the USA is the hope of the world. Over 100 countries have fallen into the cesspool of Marxist degradation, and you elected Bill and Obama and then almost elected Hillary – she probably would have finished you off as a free nation.
For all his bombast, Trump gets energy right, and cheap reliable abundant energy is the lifeblood of society. Obama and others were on the road to destroying your energy systems, which means destroying your country. Trump gets a lot of other things right too, and may turn out to be the savior of your nation.
For those who hate Trump, I suggest you consider the alternative. You flirted with disaster with Bill and Obama and dodged a bullet with Hillary. So far, so good – but just barely!
Best personal regards, Allan 🙂
** snork! ** 😀
Reply to Greg.
If it was multiple choice the weirdest answers are just the result of random choice. People don’t necessarily believe these things, they just have no idea and don’t really care.
Yes, this was certainly a multiple choice format.
What caused the cold war?
1. Russia
2. Russia
3. Russia
4. Russia
5. Russia
6. Global warming
7. Russia
[ Hint : if you want a passport, say Russia ].
I find perfection of the spotless sun somewhat mesmerizing
“The teaching of American history has traditionally focused on memorization, dates, names and events. This poll shows that these methods of learning history have not been effective. ”
What? Us old folks were taught by memorization. It wasn’t fun (for me), but I sure knew all the answers to the above questions – with considerable background and dates for each. I went to school in Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado, California, Washington, and Kansas. (Yeah, we moved around a lot!) It was all memorization – even in California (’67-’68). According to the poll above, the old folks scored best. I seriously doubt they use such methods now. From what I’ve seen on Watter’s World, you must be passing if you just come to class occasionally.
But, us ‘old folks’ had less history to memorize. 🙂
Yes. What they call history is what we call current events
Yes, this logical aberration seems odd until you realise that the ones making this decision and designing the new “program” are the same generation which failed to learn anything at school.
They are told that PAST temperatures can get colder and colder each year.
They think that doctors can make a mistake when they ignorantly “assign” your gender at birth.
What you fail to realise ( as an older person who knows something ) is that millennials find being expected to know something very “offensive”. How dare you question them? It’s not “OK”.
Saw a millennial MP dodge a couple of simple questions with…….
”stop pub quizzing me” when asked about her claims.
Dead from the neck up, mouth on auto-play.
The older folks, the ones who were taught via memorization got the answers right.
The younger ones who have been through school since memorization has been abandoned did not.
And this proves that memorization doesn’t work?
Sounds like this poll was put out by a education major.
First, you no longer have to pass – you merely need a participation trophy!
Second, the subject we used to call ‘Civics’ and ‘American History’ are considered too boring to keep the little darlings awake so the circula has been sweetened up and diluted until nothing is learned. The teachers like it because they don’t have to show their students learned anything in order to show they teach nothing.
…but 64% are absolutely positive Ford was telling the truth…and Trump lies
🙂
You can’t fix stupid! Our education system fails on so many levels.
Yep. Two relevant comments:
1. Since when is 60% a “passing grade”?
2. Never forget that 50% of the population is below average.
When you go out in public…
…never forget that half to people you see
Are totally figging nuts
Or as George Carlin said, “Think how stupid the average person you know is, and understand that half the people are dumber than that.”
Thank the Great Spirit that half of them are at least a little smarter than that and a few of them are a whole lot smarter. 🙂 🙂
The Millennials are greatly misunderstood. Think of them as the jokester generation and late night comedy shows and Facebook are their news sources.
Sadly, they don’t understand why nobody takes them seriously.
And even sadder is the fact that many of them are humorless snowflakes.
And having been ‘the encyclopaedia’ to my sons when they were little, now my eldest (who DOES get his news from the American late-night shows) regards me as a know-nothing crumbly.
It was Woodrow Wilson, along with Teddy Roosevelt who started the “Progressive” movement which has resulted in all of today’s nonsense; including the dumbing down of history education!
I wonder if there is one negative event that has not been caused by CAGW :
– This morning my toast fell on the wrong side.
If the weather hadn’t been so warm it wouldn’t have mattered as the butter would have been harder so there wouldn’t have been a wrong side. Damn global warming did it again.
So I’m curious and I clicked on the (www.woodrow.org) link….. VERY DISAPPOINTED to see the prominent person smiling front page and center…… is a dark skinned muslim woman covered in a burkha…..
I get the “we are virtue signaling our patoots off, please like us…” vibe whenever I see that tripe.
sorry Woodrow org… not for me… Islamists burka-izing their wominz because the wominz can be stoned to death because they “make” the men be sexually attracted to them… and are equal to status of CATTLE….
really turns me off………
in London we had unusually hot July. On number of occasions seen young men in their late twenties or thirties in a t shirts, shorts and sandals and female companions assume of a similar age, more often than not wrapped head to toe in the black robes.
I don’t think my wife (or sister if I had one) would tolerate such attire inequity, but again the UK is free country, but for some not always.
You know who else has a burqa?
Multi-evaded multi-recidivist gangster Redoine Faïd (and his brother).
http://www.usapostclick.com/redoine-faid-case-french-gangster-evaded-police-in-burqa/
So what’s the problem here.
This is the age of the buck pass – we have the interweb to answer all these dumb questions *and*, get this, its made of computers.
= perfect machines that *never* get anything wrong, never switch off, hence leading to a Utopia where Sputniks never burn, airplanes never crash, dams never overflow, trains & cars never wreck, finance systems are always rock solid. Even before weather/hurricane/tsunami *and* climate forecasts are always perfect.
How can there be *any* sort of problem.
And if anything does go wrong, we have lawyers to put it right.
ha
I *do* like the ‘age’ part of it = “under 45s are clueless”
Nicely corresponds to the near total demonisation of saturated fat and its replacement with sugar
There it is – Eat a nutrient-free diet and you get nutrient-free people.
Mothers say that to their children, but what do they know?
Mothers are made of feelings, intuition and instinct.
A lot like their children until Coca-Cola gets in the way……. and then, even computers cannot repair the damage, they only serve to compound it.
Two percent got it right! When the Soviet Union lost the Cold War they moved in to take over the environmental movement — Gorbachev started the Green Cross and gave global warming environmental speeches along with Gore. They knew the way to take over the West was not military war but NGO subversion. https://www.traditioninaction.org/Cultural/E078_Scam.htm
Russia and Canada would be main beneficiaries of prolonged and sustained warming, but alas the GW appears to be over.
Last February Moscow had the HEAVIEST snowfall in 100 years. Today Calgary had the heaviest October snow in 60 years (according to the BBC’s weather man)
“Only one in three Americans (36 percent) can actually pass a multiple choice test consisting of items taken from the U.S. Citizenship Test, which has a passing score of 60..”
Wow, that sure is a dismal state of affairs that the vast majority of USA citizens can’t pass a multiple choice citizenship test with a score above 60%. No wonder the national sentiment about immigration gone off the rails. Although maybe an immigrant or even a Green Card holder has a higher pass test than that, because they are trying harder to be a citizen some day. That is barely above answering random odds. And multiple choice at that. Sure is food for thought about maybe what is really wrong with the country. Are there that many people (citizen’s) that actually just don’t care, that ignorant that they can’t pass a citizenship test? If these people are hearing climate misinformation in this day and age of fake and opinionated news, then what hope do they have to understand the climate science in this debate? This is really disturbing news…I hope it isn’t true because if it is, I think we are in deeper trouble than from any future climate warming.
The schools *are* in trouble because the socialists have taken them over and are using them to spread their lies and propaganda. This means the nation is in trouble. All it would take is enough of these ignorant people to put the Democrats back in power and then we will really be in trouble. Trouble we may not be able to recover from.
This coming November election is going to show us the relative strengths of the conservatives and the Liberals. Let’s pray we outnumber these fools or we will be headed back down the road to ruin that Barack Obama had us on..
I saw an item on the news tonight about a Grade 10 school actually having a test in Social Studies where the correct definition of the political right was one of disparaging description. Conservatives they said were racists and practised misogyny, amongst other negative connotations. It is unbelievable that this can become official curriculum in high school. And it even starts earlier, in kindergarten on many issues we have all read about for years. The teachers union should not have that much control of what the curriculum actually is. That should be set by some process that gives young students balanced and standardized teachings so that they have the skills to make their own decisions about the world around them.
Gorbachev’s speech:
““Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal changes in the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep.” -Mikhail Gorbachev, speech to the Soviet Politburo, November 1987”
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread525624/pg1
Now do a survey to ask how many knew that Crimea was seized by Russia from Ukraine and the South China Sea was claimed by China during Obama’s time in office. That is not asking them to identify those areas on a map either.
Citizenship tests are pointless. As if answering a few questions by rote will stop a radical coming to the UK/USA intent on murder or installing a caliphate insidiously birth by birth. These people will never adopt OUR values. It’s lip service to integration that will never happen. It’s meant more to convince the indigenous population that something is being done. Nobody cares when an impostor is payed to take the test or the invigilator gives them the answers.
The Democrats and their supporters are really dumb and ignorant and would like everyone else to join them in their darkness. They are doing their best to bring this about.
That doesn’t strike me as so bad, assuming that the remainder did know.
We’ve had these surveys before, showing how many people actually thought that Germany was on our side in WWII, and who couldn’t find the USA on a world map.
Look on the plus side: Hillary & Co. probably thought a lot of people might give a flying f if they could be persuaded that Russia had been trying to interfere in US elections. They didn’t bother to stop and ask how many people also thought Russia was one of the contiguous US States. It’s often not the answers that matter, but the questions. Team Trump probably asked themselves better questions.
At the end of the Cold War, the Communists decided that environmentalism was the best chance they had of overthrowing capitalism.
Why choose Global Warming instead of Global Cooling? People in the old USSR had experienced and were not afraid of brutally cold winters. So they chose Global Warming with all the exaggerated bad outcomes.
Some people think the cold war was caused by “climate change.”
“Too stupid to live” really should be a valid diagnosis. 🙁
Well, it’s good we won it before they had a chance to thaw out.
I believe I’ve only been questioned in one phone poll.
If my memory serves me correctly, it had something to do with the latest disaster facing humankind.
Of course that might be a false memory, it must have been 2 or 8 years ago.
Don’t they record these things ??, I did a really good job of laying out my position.
Kinda wish I could hear the replay, (or maybe not).
Since we are on the subject, how many of you know that originally in the Constitution Senators were to be chosen by the legislatures of each State. They were to represent the State in the federal government not people. The passing of the 17th Amendment changed that to a direct election and we have been worse off ever since.
Well not if it meant ending up with UK and Aussie style political science chaos or Italian government roulette.
What’s ironic here is that Woodrow Wilson was decidedly anti-Constitutional, deriding the Bill of Rights as “4th of July pieties”.
He, of course, was a progressive, believing that government existed to discern and foster the collective desires of the people.
Oddly–and consistently with other progs—he was silent on the mechanisms for the government to discern and act on changes in the desires of the people. Surely, the US couldn’t have a hundred-page referendum every few years….
But “experts”, you see, would figure all that stuff out. Just as they did in the USSR and in Venezuela today.
Snort.
As others have written above. “communists” have taken over the shaping of the minds of our youth. I live in the New Orleans area. Not only have the cultural Marxists taken over and wish us to forget history, but they are also attempting to “erase” history. The statue and monument desecration is just the beginning.
Lisa G, it’s a hijab not a burqa she’s wearing…
If you want to know anything about islamic traditions and culture, ask someone from sweden.
Wow, that one cuts to the quick.
An ignorant populace is a manageable populace; an ignorant populace is unquestioning, malleable. Sheeple, bleating whatever the powers that be tell them to bleat.
2% believe what the headline blares. That headline is close to click-bait.
Belf, I could have been from Finland , swedish-speaking “Finlandssvensk” or even Norwegian/Danish. I’m in southern Finland rather often as my gf is from Esbo… (Just west of Helsinki)
Apparently Lisa G didn’t hear Boris Johnson’s joke about burqa-wearing women looking like letterboxes…
SMHI reporting snowcover every day since September 24… even some inland stations…
“with 74 percent answering at least six in 10 questions correctly. For those under the age of 45, only 19 percent passed with the exam, with 81 percent scoring a 59 percent or lower.”
I’m guessing natural selection at work.