Ethics

Don't Let Them Vote

By Ed Brayton

Yet another study has reinforced what we already knew from dozens of others: Americans are, as a group, abysmally ignorant even of their own country. The AP reports:

Only one in four Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment.

But more than half can name at least two members of the cartoon family, according to a survey.

But wait, it gets worse:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 21, 2008 (boomark / email).