Are You Dumber than an American?

[Liberal1975]

75. Americans aren't "stupid"

We are however, increasingly less educated, more importantly I think, we are uninterested. Most Americans I speak to and I feel is a pretty diverse group are "intelligent" enough to know that our political system is a puppet show engineered by the rich, for the rich.

They understand that in the final analysis our votes and our voices are not heard by the policians we elect.

They have little or no connection with a media that has become a purveyor of special interest stories of little or no substance or opinion shows which for the most part preach to the converted.

The media itself consists of a bunch of highly paid individuals who have no idea of what it's like to be a "real American". That is what Frum was pointing out a couple of weeks ago. They don't know what it's like to worry about the status of Medicare because you have a grandmother with senile dementia who requires 24 hour care and Medicare covers a portion of her nursing home costs.

In the 1960's Americans scored higher in achievement tests and college entrance exams than any other country in the world. Since then, education has been slashed to make room for more $ for the job creators. The media once a solid source of unbiased information has become a for profit infotainment industry through deregulation.

In the past thirty years there has been a systematic assault on the American people from the plutocracy. At every turn they have maximized their profits at the expense of the rest of society.

They now control the message and the messenger. They control America. The majority of American people know this, they just don't know how to combat it. Are we stupid? I think of us more as defeated and apathetic. I think it's hard to blame us for feeling so.