PressTV: Are we too stupid to continue as a nation?
Even though we have more access to information today than ever before, it seems like the U.S. population just keeps becoming more ignorant.
So at what point does a society become so “dumbed-down” that it can no longer function effectively?
We like to complain about our leaders, but the truth is that we are the ones that elected them. They are a reflection of who we are as a society. And when you compare Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner to men like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, they don’t fare too well.
Sadly, the truth is that most of our founding fathers would not have a prayer of being elected today. Instead, they would be labeled as crazy “extremists” for insisting that we follow the U.S. Constitution.
In our entertainment-addicted society, Lady Gaga would have a much greater chance of being elected president today than George Washington would. That is how far we have fallen.
Perhaps you think that I am being overly pessimistic.
Perhaps you think that I should have more faith in the American people.
Well, just consider the evidence. The following are 19 surveys which prove that a large chunk of the population is made up of totally clueless sheeple…
#1 One survey found that 56 percent of Americans believe that it is okay for the government to track “the telephone records of millions of Americans” in order to keep us safe. Apparently those people have never heard of the Fourth Amendment.
#2 When Bush was president, 61 percent of Democrats considered NSA surveillance to be “unacceptable”, but now that Obama is in the White House, only 34 percent of them consider it to be “unacceptable.”
#3 67 percent of Americans support the use of unmanned drones in “homeland security missions” inside the United States. What’s next? Will there be “security robots” that stand in the corner and watch us as we eat dinner with our families?
#4 Close to one-third of all Americans would be willing to submit to a “TSA body cavity search” in order to fly.
#5 20 percent of all government workers and 26 percent of all Obama supporters consider the Tea Party to be “the biggest terror threat” that America is facing.
#6 89.7 percent of Americans believe that they are eating a healthy diet. Meanwhile, approximately 36 percent of all Americans are obese.
#7 29 percent of Americans believe that “cloud computing” involves an actual cloud.
#8 One survey found that 42 percent of all Americans are unaware that Obamacare is law.
#9 The average American watches 28 hours of television every week.
#10 According to a survey conducted by the National Geographic Society, only 37 percent of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 can find the nation of Iraq on a map.
#11 Close to 25 percent of all Americans do not know that the United States declared independence from Great Britain.
#12 We are the most doped up nation in the history of the planet. As I wrote about recently, a survey conducted by the Mayo Clinic found that 70 percent of all Americans are on at least one prescription drug. An astounding 20 percent of all Americans are on at least five prescription drugs.
#13 According to one survey, 24 percent of all U.S. teens that have a sexually-transmitted disease say that they still have unprotected sex.
#14 Approximately one out of every five teenage girls in the United States actually wants to be a teenage mother.
#15 As I noted the other day, 48 percent of all Americans do not have any emergency supplies stored up at all.
#16 One survey found that 51 percent of all Americans agree with this statement: “it is necessary to give up some civil liberties in order to make the country safe from terrorism.”
#17 According to a Bloomberg survey, only 16 percent of Americans believe that the Federal Reserve should be abolished.
#18 29 percent of all Americans cannot recall the name of the vice-president of the country.
#19 In 2008, the American people voted to send Barack Obama to the White House. After four years of watching everything that he did during his first term, the American people turned around and gave him another four years.
As a nation, we no longer seem to care much about what the U.S. Constitution actually says. When our politicians tell us that they want to ignore large sections of the Constitution, we just shrug and go along with it.
And we have completely abandoned the values and the principles that this country was founded on. Our society bears very little resemblance to 18th century America, and we like it that way. We like to think that we have “progressed” far beyond where they were at, but the truth is that our country is coming apart at the seams all around us.
In this day and age, it is imperative that Americans learn to think for themselves. Way too many Americans are just like sheep - they just blindly follow the herd.
It is time to break out of “the matrix” and to start seeing things for how they really are. Our nation is crumbling and our leaders are taking us down a path toward oblivion. We need to wake up our fellow Americans while there is still time.
AHT/AGB
Poster Comment:
james Media, entertainment, and any other society related item you can think of has been infected by the Zionist jew backed crime family! This is what has put and kept the American people in a state of being "dumbed down" the history of it is much too deep to get into here but its available too any whom wants too research it for themselves?I say too bring the US out of this flat spin one would have too completely take the Jewish influence out of the equation. Look around you people!! PressTV is being taken off the air in some European countries already! I don't have all the answers I just know what I know from reading and I just say what is on my heart even though its in some cases not popular. That's how free speech is supposed too be right...?
Kyle McDermott I think that's an insult to sheep! An international constellation of forces runs America for its own benefit; the international Judeo-plutocracy killed America and is now feasting on its carcass. The reason things keep getting worse is because they WANT them to - but the sheeple keep voting for them. Coming up next, eight years of Hillary.
Westy I have read other surveys that are just as bad - about one third of Americans do not know the name of the country they won their independence from.
RockyRacoon When you have idiots like Alex Jones calling globalization socialism with three hours a day dedicated to anti collectivism and he is seen as some sort of Guru who is waking people up I would say yeah a lot of ignorant people out there. Those are the steeple that are being lead to the slaughter. These so called Libertarian's and before that we had the televangelists mis-leading the people I hope the people of Iran keep their resources for the benefit of the people and not private property of some economic elite. Otherwise Iran will have the same problems ten fold as America does. Rockyracoon People are social products and in a class society you are going to have a certain amount of dumbing down in the education system-You are going to have pills prescribed for profit and when you have a system of control where the only legal form of escape is television-u are going to have a lot of people watching television. A vote for Obama was better than a vote for Romney and the derogatory Obamacare as u put it, is at least going to give people with pre-existing conditions some form of insurance. Obama should have gone for the single payer public option right from the get go-he should have nationalized the fed rolled back the Bush tax cuts and a whole lot more-but then he would have been assassinated wouldn't he. If elections changed anything they would be illegal in Western "democracies" And it just isn't Obama who makes law you have your congress to and judiciary to contend with as well Money as Speech hah that says it all.
james Media, entertainment, and any other society related item you can think of has been infected by the Zionist jew backed crime family! This is what has put and kept the American people in a state of being "dumbed down" the history of it is much too deep to get into here but its available too any whom wants too research it for themselves?I say too bring the US out of this flat spin one would have too completely take the Jewish influence out of the equation. Look around you people!! PressTV is being taken off the air in some European countries already! I don't have all the answers I just know what I know from reading and I just say what is on my heart even though its in some cases not popular. That's how free speech is supposed too be right...?
Kyle McDermott I think that's an insult to sheep! An international constellation of forces runs America for its own benefit; the international Judeo-plutocracy killed America and is now feasting on its carcass. The reason things keep getting worse is because they WANT them to - but the sheeple keep voting for them. Coming up next, eight years of Hillary.
Tatarewicz: Bureaucrats have proliferated so much and grabbed so much power to determine what everyone is to do that people are conditioned to do what they're told (in politics by Jew-controlled media.