Three things, from Instapundit.
In light of depressing things like this, I’d also suggest a reading of the Declaration at your gathering tomorrow. The leftists who have taken over the educational system seem to have won.
Of course, to be fair, like the “Jaywalking” segments, we don’t necessarily see all the ones who had the answer right. It’s still dismaying that he could find so many so clueless. I doubt if that would have been the case, say, a couple years after the Civil War.
[Update a while later]
Young people are failing civics, and it’s a crisis for the nation:
For the past ten years, our research team at Stanford has interviewed broad cross-sections of American youth about what U. S. citizenship means to them. Here is one high school student’s reply, not atypical: “We just had (American citizenship) the other day in history. I forget what it was.” Another student told us that “being American is not really special….I don’t find being an American citizen very important.” Another replied, “I don’t want to belong to any country. It just feels like you are obligated to this country. I don’t like the whole thing of citizen…I don’t like that whole thing. It’s like, citizen, no citizen; it doesn’t make sense to me. It’s like to be a good citizen—I don’t know, I don’t want to be a citizen…it’s stupid to me.”
This seems to be a theme this weekend.
As I noted, a success for the left.
Idiots!
I especially liked the YouTube Comments that said the guy asking the questions was the TOOL! Seriously? Or the one that said people don’t want to remember history when they are at the beach.
HUH?
“I’m sorry Sir, I can’t answer History questions at the beach, I leave my History Memory in my “going to the Mall pants, these are Board Shorts!”
Well, I suppose they could be truly internationalist in the sense of Territories:
They shoot without shame
In the name of a piece of dirt
For a change of accent
Or the colour of your shirt
Better the pride that resides
In a citizen of the world
Than the pride that divides
When a colourful rag is unfurled
… or they could be budding tranzi nitwits. Sadly, the way to bet is the latter.
They’ll remember our 2nd civil war (when the starship troopers take over.)
He probably would have gotten a more knowledgeable crowd if he’d asked that question in some other counrty.
Sadly, you may be right. Especially in eastern Europe. And Israel.
There is another explanation. We forget that the median IQ in this country in 100. In earlier times the morons among us were largely invisible. Now they’re on display.
All is not lost.
I walked into the living room yesterday afternoon, when my daughter and son were arguing,,, Again. I asked what the problem was” The boy wanted to play a video game and the girl wanted to watch tv. Normal enough but then the facts started coming out. My 9 year old daughter was watching the History Channel show about the revolution. My 13 year old son said “Dad, It’s just talking about the battle of ‘Cowpen.’ I know how it ends. We used our militia to bait the British into a charge then we stomped on them. I haven’t played any Lego Starwars all weekend!” I guess public education can still teach some things.