The American people are not as idiotic as you seem to think, they have just given up on politics as usual. It's good news for conservative types that only the unquestioning, fearful reactionary voters still vote dutifully.
No, Americans are as idiotic as I believe they are.
Read this board for proof of that, 99% of posters here can't even formulate a reasonable post , all they can do is foment anger and angst.
The posters on this board are not representative of the American people at large. Most people are so politically disengaged that they have no real interest in anything political. Sometimes I envy them.
Oh , I disagree. I believe this board very well represents Americans at large.
Have you ever seen this study?
http://www.rlynn.co.uk/uploads/pdfs/Intelligence and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations.pdf
It's 12 years old now, but if anything , the US has moved DOWN in those rankings.
Oh, and further, I would argue that the country at large would be better off if most of the people on this board WOULD disengage from politics. The last thing we need is MORE idiots voting.
Correction: Every single eligible adult should vote, the idea that only a small subset of the population is fit to vote is one that elitists have pushed in failed governments since popular voting first came into being.
I'm fine with every single eligible voter voting. But not every single adult should be eligible.
I'm sorry, but if you are so stupid that you don't even realize that the policies that you just said you support are the exact opposite of those the candidate you said you support's are,you should not be voting,and I don't want you having a say in how my country is ran.
And we both know that idiots like that are everywhere.
Children do not get a vote in how the family operates.
Have you ever read THIS study?
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/roper2006/pdf/FINALReport2006GeogLitsurvey.pdf
I mean realize we aren't talking about voting on where to go on vacation here. In the last 14 years American voters have led to policies and politicians which have cost thousands of Americans to lose their lives and BILLIONS of dollars to be spent, and the vast majority of the idiots voting can't even locate the countries we are fighting in on a map?
Pathetic.
PS - we certainly were not founded on the principle that every adult got a vote either.