Mikeoxenormous
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You can thank the Public Education system and Marxists/Demofascists for dumbing down America. It has been their plan all this time...A stupid citizenry votes stupidly...Well, you know, that's not totally unexpected in the second dumbest nation.
We have always been idiots - Kevin Drum
Brian Beutler has a piece up today that's gotten a lot of attention. He argues that Democrats haven't adjusted to a new online media environment that gives Republicans a big advantage in spreading their preferred dystopian narratives. He points to 2012 as the last old school election: Back then...jabberwocking.comAs an example, Ipsos has conducted its "Perils of Perception" survey for the past decade. Back in 2014, one of the questions they asked was about how many people are out of work. The real answer was 6%, but that's not what people thought:Americans pegged unemployment at 32%, above even Great Depression levels! And when Ipsos tallied up their whole set of questions, Americans were (almost) the most ignorant people in the advanced world: