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DearHeart

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8. In my opinion, the problem is that they know who Snookie is & many people would follow Oprah

Sun May 12, 2013, 02:26 PM

May 2013

off a cliff if she told them to. People are woefully ignorant in this country, they're too busy watching DWTS, American Idol, Duck Dynasty, etc. They don't educate themselves about anything, including history, and they sure don't pay attention to what's happening in politics, even though it adversely affects their lives. No, they don't need to know factoids, but they do need to pay attention to what's going on and keep informed. We can see what effects their ignorance is having on our country.

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America the Clueless [View all] babylonsister May 2013 OP

K&R patrice May 2013 #1

Part of the problem is a lot of people mistake or use & admire ignorance as being principled. patrice May 2013 #2

IOW, bow to the loud-mouthed bully! Some of us aren't impressed with that style, though. freshwest May 2013 #7

Messing with the pollsters treestar May 2013 #3

somebody who doesn't know hfojvt May 2013 #5

Some think his first name, Barack, is Hebrew: freshwest May 2013 #6

Now that's interesting treestar May 2013 #10

You've got it all down: freshwest May 2013 #12

Thanks, I had not seen that before treestar May 2013 #13

Barack is Hebrew AMF2334 Feb 2015 #16

Commas, and periods, are your friends. n/t arcane1 Feb 2015 #17

Could be the RW conspiracy theorists who believe the NWO and the UN CJCRANE May 2013 #9

this begs a question though hfojvt May 2013 #4

In my opinion, the problem is that they know who Snookie is & many people would follow Oprah DearHeart May 2013 #8

It's not a whole lot to ask to know what Independence Day is treestar May 2013 #11

except that every 4th of July hfojvt May 2013 #14

One would have to be pretty shallow and dumb treestar May 2013 #15