Saturday, March 15, 2008

Britney World (Part 92366)

clipped from www.amazon.com
Students in 55 of the nation's leading universities can't identity the Constitution as the document that establishes the division of governmental powers into three branches. More than half of the country's high school students don't know why or who we fought in WWII. Sixty percent of Americans think that it's the president, not the congress, with the power to declare war. Fifty percent think that the president can suspend the Constitution at will. And week after week, the most widely-read "news" stories are those focusing on celebrities and gossip.
And I do mean WORLD. Contrary to what the loony left press will marinade you in, as disgustingly uninformed as we are, the rest of the world is largely worse. Don't forget, Hollywood does its best to spread our ignorance far and wide.

And sadly, I'm amazed that there are still even odds that high school graduates will say we allied with someone other than Hitler. This means that in addition to our students being indoctrinated in leftist shibboleths by leftists, they're incompetent at it to boot.

So I'm guessing there's still a corner of a frown on Gramsci's smiling corpse. Or ... he may have had that as the goal all along.