August 31, 2005
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According to the New York Times, One in five adult Americans thinks the sun revolves around the earth. Only about 10% of us know what radiation is.
How in the hell do we expect our country to make good decisions? Without better education, Democracy is a doomed, pointless, failure. Give me a dictator over a Democracy filled with an uninformed populus.
Have you heard of the “Free State Project”? A couple years ago, some libertarians tried a (largely unsuccessful, so far) project to have libertarians start moving to New Hampshire until they could democratically take over the local and state governments.The Christian right has a similar movement called “Christian Exodus” where their goal is to take over South Carolina annd set it up as a “religious state”, succeeding from the Union if necessary.
Hmm… The hard core fundamentalist religious right wants to succeed from the Union?
Finding it hard to get too upset about this one. Of course, if I lived in South Carolina, it might be different.
Comments (3)
Common sense may be hard to come by, but it seems that intelligence may be rare now as well. I’m so glad that I tedn to be spoiled by above-average friends.
It really is hard to believe. Who are these people, and where do they live? (and anyone who says “Red States” is just copping out…)
I don’t think I’d be too upset if the fundamentialist religious wanted to make their own country.