Why do the American people continue to elect leaders who lie to them, spy on them, steal their money and bankrupt their future generations?
Easy: They don’t know any better. For decades they’ve been dumbed-down/ brainwashed by a government-run education system which continues to produce demonstrably inferior academic outcomes (at an ever-escalating cost to taxpayers).
And guess what: Eventually all those dumb kids grow up to be dumb adults …
The latest evidence? According to the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies – a research project of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – American adults recorded below average scores on math, reading and problem solving through technology. In fact America’s math scores ranked third-worst among those nations surveyed.
Researchers on this project tested 166,000 people aged 16 to 65 in two dozen industrialized countries – and found that “U.S. performance is weak in literacy, very poor in numeracy …. (and) slightly below average in problem solving in technology-rich environments.”
“Larger proportions of adults in the United States than in other countries have poor literacy and numeracy skills, and the proportion of adults with poor skills in problem solving in technology-rich environments is slightly larger than the average, despite the relatively high educational attainment among adults in the United States,” the researchers noted.
(To view America’s report card for yourself, click here).
Depressing, huh?
But hey … let’s all watch some Here Comes Honey Boo Boo over a bucket of food stamp-funded fried chicken while using our Obamaphones to let everybody on Facebook know “WHAZUUUUUUUUUPPP!!!”
Because that should do the trick …
UPDATE: This report has generated quite the response from our guest columnist, Brocephus Jones.
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TBG wonders aloud…
Seems the countries surveyed were all European, heavily Euro influenced (USA, Canada, Australia) or East-Asian. TBG wonders what the scores would look like with some sub- equatorial (other than Australia) countries included. TBG also wonders what the scores of Americans of European, Korean,and Japanese descent scored compared to Americans with different ancestries.
Avenger in 3…2…1…
I’m beginning to think Avenger is yet another moniker for T.
It is not because America is stupid. It is because American’s are apathetic.
If anything poor white folks have been brainwashed into thinking that the Republicans have their interests at heart by talking about gays, guns, and God. Oh and they secretly all know they all hate black people.
Dang it, not sure why I put that apostrophe in there.
As to whether ignorance or apathy is worse…..TBG doesn’t know, and doesn’t care.
You may or may not have valid points but I have no idea why you refer to yourself in the third person.
A) It’s a “Bob Dole thing”
B) Schizophrenia
C) A running dig at our founding editor’s overuse of “Our Founding Editor”.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above
At a certain point, apathy should denote stupidity. Especially the point where apathy becomes extremely detrimental to one’s own well-being.
autobiography ?
I would think continuing to tout the already-debunked “Obamaphones” lie would fit into the uneducated, misinformed, “stoopid” category.
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/10/the-obama-phone/
Yes, this link is from four years ago.
No surprises…any nation that elects someone like Obama to the highest office twice is definitely a nation of ignorant low brows…
While I’m a conservative, and certainly didn’t vote for Obama, I’m still proud to be an America. I’m sure you can travel to other places that may be need of your services.
Ding! Ding! Another dollar lands in the “government-run” jar.
Seriously?
We don’t have good candidates to vote for.
Nobody decent would run the media gauntlet.
THAT’S why we elect the thieving liars we do.
Great lead in photo.
Vote them ALL out!
No incumbent left behind!
Start with Haley!!!!!!
Cause that will fix it? No. You’ll hate them too. People generally don’t run for office to get slaughtered by the public and media unless they generally were good people. Some people change, some are bought out but not everyone are dirt bags, thieves or liars. Offer up real suggestions or run for office yourself. Try local politics. You’ll see it’s not as easy as they make it on TV.
I’ve been there, done that, as they say. The system corrupts, that is why I left. If a person serves more than 3-4 terms or 6-8 years they are corrupt themselves and looking out for number 1. There should be universal term limits.