Root of Ruinous Problem

From a Friend:

This explains a lot. And it also deepens one's pessimism. Clearly, we cannot survive as a free country if citizens are this stupid.

"The report found that only 54% of college graduates can correctly identify a free enterprise system as one in which individual citizens create, exchange, and control goods and services.
Of course, this statistic reflects the civic understanding of college graduates. Those without a college degree fare even worse"

And, even better, our "leaders" are not even that smart:

"Most damning of all, perhaps, is that self-identified elected officials score lower on average than the general public. So not only are our politicians illiterate in matters of political history and economics, they are less knowledgeable than the already lamentably ill-informed average citizen. Fifty-four percent do not know that the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war. They tested worse than everyone else in the subjects of First Amendment freedoms, international trade, abortion, and many more. "The blind leading the blind" has never seemed more appropriate."

In the past, when I've said that I doubt lawmakers have ever read the Constitution, I was making a snarky point, not speaking literally. Apparently, however, it appears I was speaking the literal truth. Boy, there's some cold comfort.

Every single sphere of life in which Liberals/Leftists have control is in ruin. And obviously, one of them is EDUCATION.

We are so screwed.