Courtesy of Wonkette http://www.wonkette.com/
scroll down (quickly) past the ebony and ivory lovefest photo of two has-beens..... too good not to highlight:
31% of Americans Have No Idea Who's Running the Country
Nearly a third of Americans don’t know Dick Cheney is vice president, according to a sad new survey by the Pew Research Center. While people can certainly be forgiven for "forgetting" Cheney is actually running the USA, other poll questions revealed that Americans are just getting dumber overall.
For example, 74% could name the governor of their own state in 1989; only 64% hold such precious knowledge today.
Well, THAT explains things....... Bush is getting a knee-jerk approval simply for being President from people who have no idea WHO is President or what's going on ..... you can assume that this group has NO idea of what's going on - other than gays are about to destroy America by getting married and evil arab Terrorists are just waiting to kill us all.
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Hell, I even knew it when Quayle was VP..... and talk about being perfectly forgettable and unqualified for high office.....
I know an attorney - someone far from dumb - who gets all his news from Fox, thinks the NY Times and most papers are liberal Communist rags and generally lives in some isolated world not seen in reality since 1953.
He's a nice guy but unhappy. From an affluent family, he dod all the "right" things - good school, law school, stable marriage, good kids...... yet his screw-up flunk out smoked too much pot brother ended up with the family business (and the $$$ that went with it).
Paying for parochial schools and colleges isn't cheap and he's watching the American dream fade.... things aren't turning out as expected. So he clings to a past that never really was, embracing "family values" and his church and the Republican Party who promises to protect him. "You know that the 9/11 hijackers trained outside Baghdad?" What's frightening is that he just retired from the Reserves - where he was in Intelligence.
You can't even discuss politics with him. He spouts the pre-packaged lines as gospel. But being blunt, he really knows NOTHING about politics or current events. Republicans good - Democrats bad. That's it. Don't expect him to know who's who.
I expected this in my grandmother. She clung to her once middle class Republican identity long after marrying a real rogue and making a mess of her life. She had a wonderfully delusional way of looking at things. I give her credit, she kept her family together - superficially - but at a price that decades of therapy probably couldn't fix. She knew nothing about politics except that the truly evil rotted in hell with Hitler, Roosevelt and Stalin (a remarkable ordering if you think about it).......
My other grandmother spent a decade in a garden apartment living on Bologna while making up stories about trips to DisneyWorld with her friends.... a far more complete break from reality.... but she DID vote religiously.
Hell, my father though Nixon was a great man who got a raw deal...... WTF? but in retrospect you couldn't go wrong by taking the OPPOSITE view my father had on..... well, everything..... he was a nice enough guy but "uninformed" - no point..... didn't do him any good at work. Didn't help him working on cars....... my screw-up six packs in the HS parking lot was more accomplished than the ONLY son that got an engineering degree..... yeah....I have issues, but at least I know it.....lol..
Truth is an awful lot of people ARE CLUELESS - and always have been. It's simply easier to go with the flow and support the status quo.
And it's not hard to remain ignorant what with the nonstop Anna Nichole Smith, Brittany and whoever, missing white girl coverage of the news you get from most MSM sources..... Hell, even the evil liberal newspapers like the NYT and WP have been remarkable in NOT holding our Pres accountable for things - once you start paying attention it's astounging how NON-"liberal" a paper like the Times really is.....
So..... ignorance remains bliss - and a third of the populace remains woefully "blissful."
Any other examples of the astoundingly uninformed?
And does this mean that less than 10% KNOWINGLY support our President with the rest simply along for the ride?