Our ADHD Democracy

As we have pointed out for years now, the dumbing down of America has been stunningly successful.

Citizens of other natoions know more about our government officials than w3e do and that is disgraceful!

If the citizens of this country care no more about their nation than this, we get what we deserve.

Fascism posing as Democracy!


American Democracy Indicted by Anthony Gregory: Full Artcile

If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.

"So says a popular bumper sticker. Indeed, those of us who have been paying attention to the political scene for years have often found ourselves outraged. The president's approval rating has gone up and down, but throughout his five years in office never has public outrage been quite commensurate with the levels of incompetence, deception, and criminality coming from Washington. The same was true under Clinton. People are simply not paying attention.

There are few writers who pay more attention to the political follies of our time and who provide their readers with more meticulously documented reasons to be outraged than James Bovard, whose new book, Attention Deficit Democracy, presents his diagnosis of what is so terribly wrong with modern American democracy.

Whether we see it as a fundamental ailment or mere symptom, the American people are largely ignorant of political reality; deeply ignorant. This has been true for some time, and Bovard cites numerous polls from the last several election cycles that all indicate a staggering lack of simple understanding.

In 2000, the University of Michigan conducted a comprehensive survey of Americans "political knowledge" and discovered that "only 15 percent knew the name of any candidate for the House of Representatives from their congressional district; only 11 percent could identify William Rehnquist as the chief justice of the Supreme Court, and only 9 percent knew that Trent Lott was the Senate majority leader.' "