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I strongly believe that we would be much better off dividing the country into individual states like the EU with each having autonomy. Maybe then we would have a chance to put most of the ignorant people in a few States. It is staggering the amount of ignorance in the U.S. as a whole. Here are some examples.
* Only 39% of Americans believe in Evolution
* 21 percent of Americans believe there are real sorcerors, conjurers, and warlocks out ther
* four in 10 Americans mistakenly believe the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act creates a panel that makes decisions about end-of-life care.
* In 1999 20% of Americans believe the sun revolved are the earth.
* In a 2007 Newsweek poll, 41% of Americans did not know which Abrahamic Religion was the oldest.
* more than three quarters of Americans could name at least two of the seven dwarfs, while not quite a quarter could name two members of the Supreme Court.
* the majority of Americans—three in four—can correctly identify Larry, Curly, and Moe as the Three Stooges. Only two out of five respondents, however, can correctly identify the executive, legislative, and judicial branches as the three wings of government.
* Who needs constitutional constructionism? Not one in three Americans, apparently: that's the proportion that said in a 2008 First Amendment Center poll that the constitutional right to freedom of religion was never meant to apply to groups most folks think are extreme or fringe—a 10 percent increase from 2000.
* Obama' Religion: It seems that the number of Americans who believe these untruths is on the rise. Among respondents to a Pew poll, 18 percent believed Obama was a Muslim, up from 11 percent in March 2009. A Time magazine poll last week found similar results: 24 percent believed he was a Muslim, while only 47 percent correctly identified him as a Christian.
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How is it even possible for 21% to believe the sun revolved around the Earth?
You'd have to be wilfully ignorant, or literally have no sense of reality. I don't believe that stat at all, it sounds like they sampled hicks from deepest Appalachia.
I strongly believe that we would be much better off dividing the country into individual states like the EU with each having autonomy. Maybe then we would have a chance to put most of the ignorant people in a few States. It is staggering the amount of ignorance in the U.S. as a whole. Here are some examples.
* Only 39% of Americans believe in Evolution
* 21 percent of Americans believe there are real sorcerors, conjurers, and warlocks out ther
* four in 10 Americans mistakenly believe the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act creates a panel that makes decisions about end-of-life care.
* In 1999 20% of Americans believe the sun revolved are the earth.
* In a 2007 Newsweek poll, 41% of Americans did not know which Abrahamic Religion was the oldest.
* more than three quarters of Americans could name at least two of the seven dwarfs, while not quite a quarter could name two members of the Supreme Court.
* the majority of Americans—three in four—can correctly identify Larry, Curly, and Moe as the Three Stooges. Only two out of five respondents, however, can correctly identify the executive, legislative, and judicial branches as the three wings of government.
* Who needs constitutional constructionism? Not one in three Americans, apparently: that's the proportion that said in a 2008 First Amendment Center poll that the constitutional right to freedom of religion was never meant to apply to groups most folks think are extreme or fringe—a 10 percent increase from 2000.
* Obama' Religion: It seems that the number of Americans who believe these untruths is on the rise. Among respondents to a Pew poll, 18 percent believed Obama was a Muslim, up from 11 percent in March 2009. A Time magazine poll last week found similar results: 24 percent believed he was a Muslim, while only 47 percent correctly identified him as a Christian.
Give the lunatic leftists asshats the west coast since they have already infected most of it.
Give the jesus loving bible freaks the south, and leave the rest of the country for freedom loving common sense using individuals.
Or, we put the leftists and jesus freaks in a single state, like California, wall it off, and watch the battles on pay per view. I'd gladly pay 49.99 to watch groups of psychos destroying each other.
The ignorance appears to be the OP's as the member nations of the EU have very little say. They have instead surrendered their economic sovereignty to unelected technocrats.
There are a number of dumb Americans, but it's their right to be dumb if they want to.
What we need is to put this country back to the way it was designed to work in the first place, as small Federal government and the States have the power to run their own affairs. The Federal government does NOT have the ability to grant its self power, only the people of this country have the ability to give the Federal government power if we so choose to. This idea has been lost or willfully ignored by the population, Wake up America! before you find yourself without any rights at all. Remember, the Federal government does NOT grant you rights, the Bill of Rights are those things the government can not transgress against, that is unless you let them.
In a nation of more than 300 million people, the spectrum of individual intelligence is going to be very wide. A normal distribution (which would be a very close approximation) of that population's intelligence would show that there would be about 15% of that 300 million who would be way below average. And that's 45 million. Which is a sizable portion. So no one should surprised or insulted that they occasionally encounter a really bleak individual. It should be expected. And it's certainly not unique to the USA.
Those who use comic snippets like Jay Walking to form their opinion on America's collective intelligence just don't understand the reality at all.
How is it even possible for 21% to believe the sun revolved around the Earth?
You'd have to be wilfully ignorant, or literally have no sense of reality. I don't believe that stat at all, it sounds like they sampled hicks from deepest Appalachia.
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The ignorance in America.
