Part 5 of 5, The idiots are in control.

I was shown sent something amazing yesterday and it shocked the near unshockable me. It is a test from 1954, an eighth grade ( I cannot stress the EIGHTH enough), eighth grade civics test, wherein, the children are asked, the cabinet positions and who is holding them, then they must name the provisions to each constitutional amendment, several other questions of the same or greater difficulty and finally they had to write down the preamble of the constitution. There was no multiple choice or any guide to help you along, the entire test was fill in the blank from memory and it was a nutbuster. I pride myself on not being a complete ass head but that test had me wearing my hindend for a hat, toot sweet. Granted I was never the best student when it came to things like school, don't get me wrong, I have and always will, love gaining knowledge but, in a school setting, it always seemed that the teachers just wanted to brainwash me. This test, that you can find at rense.com/general75/pass.htm, showed me something about our world that I was already sure of anyway but it helps me illustrate it to you. What is obvious to me is this, we are bieng dumbed down, if I think back to my eighth grade civics tests, they were nothing like this one. I am not saying that they didn't cover some of these subjects but I can say that the tests weren't that involved, a typical class would involve some reading, a short film about fur traders and a test of relative simplicity. My junior high was one of the better ones too, small town, mostly non-suicidal teachers, acedemic excellence awards on the walls, an actual good school, just not as good as a 1954 school. People continue to live by an ever lowering expectation of intellegence and if their stupidity is brought into question, you are thrown to the wolves for being insensitive toward someones learning disibility. Mabye it isn't the lack of education, mabye it's in our drinking water. Mabye some terrorist organization has been slipping powdered tard extract into our water supply for decades and it is just now, really taking effect. Mabye our own current President, thinking he was about to snort some high end Columbia, accidentally snorted a big fat line of thirteen year old north american mongoloid. That senario could explain quite a bit about our current state in this country, because I am sure that bag of fine grained ignoramous, certainly would have made it around the dorms, forever altering the history of American politics and business. On the other hand mabye the low standards in education these days, are simply in place, because we live in a society that just can't accept criticism and ridicule. You can't call fat people fat, nor stupid people stupid, it is politically incorrect to make a person, who seems to have gone out of their way to be a social reject, feel at all bad about their numbskulledness. Our world has decided that we will aspire to the lowest common denominator, that is where the future is. I would be willing to bet that our Pres would have a hell of a time passing even a short bus version of an eighth grade civics test. He is the best point to ponder about our low standards for intelligence in America. In storys of kings and knights and days gone by, for a man to be king he had to be sly, wise, at all times a step ahead of the people who would dethrone him. In current day America, we have world leaders who can just barely read, the kind of people who squint hard when confronted with a new word, like pants, for instance. Forbid making fun or jesting about the presidents dimness, then you, somehow are not supporting our troops, yet another hurdle placed before those of us who wish to speak up against the hooked on moronics program. I do support our troops, I don't support, suicidal tactics and poorly thought out "strategy", that gets people killed for an unattainible purpose. The President isn't the only chuffskull in a position of power in our country, presidential candidates are elected by their peers and if that thought doesn't put the wind up you, nothing will. If you want this country to stay competitve in our new world market, get back on track with education, start openly, verbally abusing stupid people, do not listen to the media and buy yourself a water purifier, just in case.