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Originally posted by [Labret]
Good point. Although I do find it sad that even people with even a basic high school education could not have figured it out for themselves.
I am never suprised to see how many people buy into the idea that the United States is some sort of moral beacon, a shining light in the world above and beyond any reproach. Esp after Sept 11th. This country is running amok in its new found patriotism. It is putrid. Americans, for the most part, are ignorant. They will believe whatever the idiot box tells them. Everyone is a patriot now, everyone is a hero. Yet give them a basic test on American history, and they will fail. People are so proud these days, yet they have no idea what they are even proud of. Morons.
This country doesnt know its ass from a hole in the ground. One minute special interest groups are shredding apart and rewriting history books to include a more lefty friendly curriculum, turning what were once heroes into genocidal maniacs. Columbus is now akin to Hitler. Thomas Jefferson, slave owning wife beater. All white men prior to 1970 are propped up as misogynist and racist... yet now post Sept 11 we are supposed to be a proud wonderous nation of people dedicated to making the world a better place. Which is it? Make up your fucking minds.
The average ignorant American does not deserve to live. They merely exist and thrive on the work of others. Very few people work to make this country a great place, the rest of you were just fortunate to have your ignorant asses born here... and you live your life oblivious to the world around you or your place in it. Most of you are a waste of fucking space.
So stuff another cheeseburger in your mouth, salute the flag, and get all teary eyed at the Star Spangled Banner... you are an American damnit. Oblivious to your ignorance you will stumble through life following the whims of the puppetmasters that control you.
I never really payed much attention to the old saying "Ignorance is bliss" when I was younger, but its true. More true than I ever could have imagined. And Americans are the prime example.
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This post, as are many of your posts, is harsh but contains alot of truth.
Polls have shown that the average American seldom reads a news paper, watches a news program, or reads a book of import.
The people on the street interviews that are conducted by some of the local TV news shows, from time to time, never cease to amaze me at how uninformed Americans are about their own history, let alone world events.
One of the most recent one of these that I saw was about Richard Nixon and Watergate. There were about a dozen people that did not have a clue who Richard Nixon was and had never heard of Watergate.
One of the most amusing that I saw was; people were being asked who the first American woman astronaut was. One female responded by saying it was a trick question because we do not have female astronauts. When she was informed of the correct answer and was told that we have had several women astronauts since then, she said she hoped that her father didn't see the interview, because she was a third year student at Harvard.