Our Republic has survived a great deal. We’ve managed to get through a
war with states determined to secede from the union (misnamed the “Civil
War”). We survived two World Wars and a Cold War. None of those events
have threatened this country nearly so much as the combined affect of
millions of abysmally ignorant Americans, products of 100 years of a
hideous government education and are now walking around with voter
registration cards. More Americans can name Kim Kardashian’s new
tricycle motor than can name our vice-president. More Americans could
write a paragraph on last season’s American Idol competition than could
write a single sentence on the IRS campaign against the Tea Parties. If
you were offered one penny for every American who makes it a habit to
watch Entertainment Tonight or a dollar for every person who reads the
front section of their local newspaper, you would be an idiot to go for
the newspaper readers. There are simply not enough newspaper readers to
pay your next power bill, let alone wisely shepherd our country through
perilous times. Bloody wars are easier to survive than idiots with
ballots.
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