A Crop Of Morons!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Taking the pulse of America. We got to have theme
music for that, or at least you know your brief.
Lu What do you what do you call it? The business?
Right here? What's that a scene center? A fanfare? I
don't know, I don't know. I think it's a fanfare.
I'm not sure it's a fan fair anyway. So this
is a story from the hill. Fewer than half of

(00:22):
Americans can name all three branches of government a survey find.
Surely that's not accurate, but you know, surely it is.
If the exaggerated by double, it's horrifying. So Americans understanding
of the basic facts about the U. S. Government declined
for the first time in six years, but declined steeply.
Fewer than half in a new survey could name all

(00:43):
three branches of government, which of course is mollari and
curly it's executive, legislative, in judicial. In case you're playing
along at home, that fell nine. About a quarter of
Americans survey could not name a single branch of the government. What. Yeah,
So you know, I'm fascinated by what we teach kids

(01:04):
and what we don't. Because I got two grade schoolers,
I said I should make that my hobby looking into
how these things came to be, and I don't Maybe
I should have an agenda, but I don't really have
an agenda. I'm just kind of curious, like how we decided. Like,
for instance, I brought up to my fourth grade and
I know this, I've known this since I was his age.
You're younger. Do you know what you're stlage? Do you
know what slag tites and slag mites are? And he
said yes? And I said do you know which ones

(01:25):
are which? And he said, oh, yeah, slag types to
point down. And I thought, why do we all know this?
How has that ever been important information to anyone on
the planet, including a geologist scu scusion around in a cave?
Why did I learn that? You know you're in a
cave and point and say, hey, look at that stollaga something?

(01:48):
Then you you know, want that knowledge, certainly, But just
for instance, I would like to know, of the people
that can't name the branches of government, how many of
them can tell you what a slagmite or slag tite
is and why do we teach stuff? Why that? Well,
with all due respect to cave geology, I think the
main point is that we are doing a miserable job

(02:09):
of teaching our kids about how our system of government works.
And I know why that is. It's because the teachers
colleges have been so captured by far left activists, um,
with no respect or love for this country, and it's
spread into the schoolrooms in your local town. I mean,
we talked about this in a number of different ways,
that different topics, from the you know, the critical race
theory to the queer theory stuff and the rest of it.

(02:30):
This is another example of it. Do you think? Yeah?
So do you think it's just a basic I don't
like the country or our government or a system, so
why would I teach about it? You think it's that Yeah?
I do. Yeah, I think teaching kids that they ought
to value our system, know how it works. Um yeah.
It's to learn about something is to value it, to

(02:52):
give it importance, to give it some regard. Um. And
and by the way, I my only criticism of the
Hill for their articles. They picked the wrong headline while
the fact that whatever it was, less than fifty could
name all three branches of government listened to this s
would you? The survey also found a decline the number
of respondents who could name any of the five freedoms

(03:13):
guaranteed under the First Amendment. Freedom of religion was indeed
named by twenty four percent of those surveyed, which fell
precipitously from just a few years ago. Those who named
freedom of the press also declined sharply, uh down by
thirty percentage points from fifty one. They must have just

(03:36):
come across a crop of morons this year or something.
We've got a crop of morons, well, morons running crops right,
heard of wildebeests, murder of crows, crop of morons,