Producing A Low Information Electorate

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Got these from Neal Boortz

• Do you think thee average voter knows that America is NOT a democracy, that it was never designed to be a democracy, and that our founding fathers hated the very idea of democracy?  Your child is being taught right now that we are a democracy.  We’re not. 

• Does the average voter understand the difference between the rule of law and the rule of man?  Has your child ever been taught that one man’s life, liberty and property are protected by our Constitution from the designs of the majority? 

• Do you think the average voter knows that just 200 years ago it was considered to be a grave insult to call someone a “Democrat?”  It meant “One who caters to the mindless whims of the masses.”  You could get your butt kicked for insults like that.

• Does the average voter know that there is no Constitutional right to cast a vote for president?  This fact isn’t exactly hidden … it’s right there in the Supreme Court’s decision in Bush V. Gore (2000).  I will guarantee you that your child’s government school teaches them that they have a right to vote for president.

• Do you think that our schools teach our children that it was the intention of our founding fathers that, in times of peace, 95 percent of all governance should come from local governments, with the remaining 5 percent coming from the federal level? 

• As your child how Senators were originally chosen.  Do they know that Senators were appointed by state legislatures?  Do they know that now, after the 17^th Amendment, your state government has no official representation in Washington? 

• Your children have undoubtedly heard that the rich don’t pay their fair share.  Ask them if they have learned in school just what percentage of total income is earned by the top 1% of income earners, and what percentage of all collected income taxes they pay.  Ask they if they think this is a fair share?

• Ask your children if they know of any historical writing that sets forth the idea of a progressive income tax, mandatory government-controlled education, high estate taxes, a central bank like the Federal Reserve and government control of the means of communication by an agency such as the FCC.  There is, as a matter of fact.  It’s called The Communist Manifesto.