Stupifying of America

I just watched a short video that was embedded in an article from Human Events. This video shows quite clearly the "dumbing down" of America. It is a video of Jay Leno doing his annual 4th of July "Jaywalking" segment. He is testing some, unfortunately, ordinary Americans on, of all things, American history. The answers these people give to simple questions about our independence is absolutely astounding. Questions like, "Who was the famous general of the Revolution? Their answer: Winston Churchill!! From whom did America take its independence? Their answer: Greece!! What year did America come into being? their answer: 1922!! And believe it or not these answers were from a college professor!!

What scares me so, is the fact that this is not recognized by those people who can correct this "stupifying of America." Perhaps they do recognize it, but just don't care. In the video Leno asks these and other similar questions of a family. He started with the husband, then the wife, then the teenage son. Neither of these could answer the questions. They said to ask grandpa. So Leno called grandpa over to the mike and asked him. Without hesitation, he answered each question correctly. Three generations of people, two of which could not answer correctly the simplest question about the independence of the greatest country on earth. The "dumbing down of America" is being done quite effectively, thank you very much. These people could not answer the questions that all legal immigrants must know before becoming a citizen of this nation.

I believe one reason this is happening is due to the permissive, "you can do no wrong" attitude that is now the norm in our elementary schools and universities. You know, we cannot tell junior or little missy that they have spelled a word wrong in their project paper. That might destroy their self esteem. And we certainly would not want them to feel that they did not do a good job, would we? No, what is being taught is that all children are equally brilliant. All kids get a trophy, regardless of the outcome of their efforts. If we make them think they are perfect, then they will always excel in life. Right? What a joke. These little darlings are going to have a great awakening once they are on their own. Well, maybe not if the Omniscient One, B. Hussein Obama has his way. At least until he and his congressional cronies realize their fantasies are just that, fantasies.

I hope you will take a look at this video. It is located at: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37922. It will be well worth your time to view it. I hope some of the educators that made the idiotic rules responsible for the stupifying of our kids will see this video and take the proper actions to begin correcting this horrible trend.

God bless America and come quickly November!!