They’re not the only ones. Senators should too. As well as members of what passes for the press. None of them seem to understand the roles and responsibilities of the various branches of the federal government.
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They would cram to pass the tests and then promptly ignore the meaning of the test. They don’t care about how the government was structured because they don’t understand/care about it’s colossal benefits.
They care about their rice bowls and the exercise of power.
Not take. Learn.
Also basic science and arithmetic. A little economics might be good too.
Most native born Americans would struggle to pass the naturalization test. My daughter once was spotted in high school studying the test when another student asked her what she was doing. “Why, I’m studying for the citizenship test”, was her reply. “Have you passed yours yet?” This led to great consternation and confusion from the other student, that my daughter strung out as long as possible. Finally, she said “Relax, you don’t have to. You were born here”. And people wonder why legal immigrants are (sometimes) more clued in than the natives.
Ads credit presidents with passing laws. TV shows put Senators in executive positions. Still, civic illiteracy is nothing new: “Gunsmoke” depicted Dodge City as a frontier town where a U.S. Marshal was needed to keep order — yet the first episode of the radio series was about Billy the Kid, whose notoriety came nearly 20 years after Kansas became a state.
In fact, Wyatt Earp had long since come and gone as a deputy town marshal in Dodge City by then.
Republican from Oklahoma, said the idea that he works for the voters of his district is “bullcrap.”
Typical lying media, he never said that he didn’t work for the voters, he said that they didn’t pay him, that he paid his own salary, which he probably did and does.
The top 1% of earners pay almost half of all income taxes, the top 20% pay about 85% of all income taxes and the bottom 45% pay either 0 tax or actually pay negative tax i.e. they get money back that they never paid.
Go Democrats go! All they need to do is get another 6% of earners off the tax rolls and they’ll never lose another presidential election. Just tell everyone that you promise to raise taxes on only those who are currently paying taxes and you’ll get 51% of the vote and you’ll actually be able to keep your promise. Then they can continue to raise their margin of victory each election by upping taxes on the top 20% and removing more people from the tax paying public. Brilliant! I should become a political strategist.
I would have characterized his remarks as “perhaps true, but absolutely tone deaf.”