Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We? | Democracy and Elections | AlterNet

Pretty damn stupid ... as far as an advanced technological society goes, it's pretty embarassing, of course stupidity has no shame or something like that .... - [excerpt] " Taking up the first of our definitions of stupidity, how ignorant are we? Ask the political scientists and you will be told that there is damning, hard evidence pointing incontrovertibly to the conclusion that millions are embarrassingly ill-informed and that they do not care that they are. There is enough evidence that one could almost conclude -- though admittedly this is a stretch -- that we are living in an Age of Ignorance. ..." Read the evidence.